US clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch wrongly fired a Muslim worker for wearing a headscarf, a federal judge rules.

President Obama says he will put plans for a military strike on Syria on hold if the country places its chemical weapons under international control.

A court in Delhi is to deliver its verdict in the trial of four men accused of the fatal gang rape of a student that caused widespread revulsion.

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington to annul April's presidential election.

Hundreds of protesters clash with police in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia and other cities, as the country celebrates Independence Day.

A man wielding a spear in the Canadian province of British Columbia fights off a cougar which attacked his partner and kills it.

The estranged wife of a Florida man acquitted of murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager tells police he threatened her with a gun.

Almost a quarter of men surveyed in a UN report looking at violence against women in parts of Asia have admitted to committing at least one rape.