Prosecutors in Brazil name four police officers accused of torturing a bricklayer in Rio de Janeiro in a case that shocked the country.

Militants have killed at least eight Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the western province of Anbar, officials say.

The 150-year-old dome atop the US Capitol building will undergo an extensive, two-year renovation to repair more than 1,000 cracks, officials say.

Greece's parliament votes to suspend state funding for the far-right Golden Dawn party, after its leader and two MPs are accused of being in a criminal organisation.

Iran's justice minister says there is "no need" for a man who survived being hanged for drug smuggling to be put through a second execution.

More than 3,000 firefighters in Australia battle devastating bushfires raging across New South Wales with extreme weather conditions forecast.

Soldiers' widows take legal action against Chile's Communist leader, who said his party approved a 1986 attack on General Pinochet, in which their husbands died.

US intelligence chief James Clapper says French press reports that the US collected data on French citizens' telephone calls are "false".