The Washington Post says Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has agreed to purchase the company's flagship newspaper for $250m (£163m).

A Chilean judge drops a nine-year probe into the wealth of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, taking no action against his family over corruption claims.

Intercepted conversations between two senior al-Qaeda figures prompted Sunday's closure of many American diplomatic missions, US media report.

The family of a honeymooning tourist killed when a man ploughed a car into a crowd in California's Venice Beach say she was "robbed of her life".

Syrian rebels capture villages during an offensive in Latakia province, the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, activists say.

A judge in Chile rejects a request to prosecute the father of presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei over the death of the father of her poll rival.

A US teenager who killed a football referee by punching him in the head pleads guilty to homicide by assault.

The US military trial of Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 unarmed soldiers in a 2009 rampage at a Texas army base, begins on Tuesday.