A website to name and shame poachers in Kenya - PoachersExposed.com - is launched by campaigners trying to stop the trafficking of ivory and rhino horns.

Greenpeace says 29 of its activists are being held at gunpoint by Russian security officers after an attempt to board a Russian oil drilling platform in the Arctic.

At least 87 people are reportedly killed in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state by Boko Haram insurgents wearing military uniforms.

Mexican authorities say 97 people have been killed in floods and bad weather, as Tropical Storm Manual weakens and heads north.

Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy sails through a confirmation hearing on her way to becoming the US ambassador to Japan.

At least 16 inmates have died at a jail in western Venezuela, in the latest violence affecting the country's overcrowded prisons.

The jailed former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, says he will publish excerpts from his memoirs on the social media websites Twitter and Facebook.

The death toll from the historic flooding that hit Colorado last week rises to seven, as state officials track 10 oil spills caused by the deluge.