A US jury awards $240m (£203m) to 32 mentally disabled men who suffered decades of abuse while working for a turkey processing company in Iowa.

An Indian man on death row for spying in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, dies after being attacked in a Lahore jail last week, reports say.

US soft drinks giant PepsiCo withdraws a Mountain Dew ad over criticism that it depicts racial stereotypes and makes light of violence against women.

The US expresses regret at Bolivia's decision to expel USAID, rejecting allegations of conspiracy made by President Evo Morales as "baseless".

Peruvian police say they have identified the body of the alleged leader of a cult that burnt a newborn baby alive last year in the town of Colliguay.

The Obama administration files an appeal against a judge's ruling that requires the "morning-after" pill to be available to all ages.

Several people including an opposition MP are arrested in Chad, in what the government describes as an attempted "destabilisation plot".

The FBI distributes photos of three men it says were on the grounds of the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked last year.