President Barack Obama's Democratic allies voice their frustration with widespread problems with aspects of his signature healthcare law.

Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif tells US President Obama drone strikes there must end, while the leaders pledge to strengthen the nations' strained ties.

Thousands of people join rival rallies in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to mark the anniversary of the 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union.

Michael Skakel, a relative of the prominent US Kennedy family, is granted a new trial in the 1975 beating death of a teenage neighbour.

Clowns at a convention in Mexico City distance themselves from last week's killing of a former Mexican drug kingpin by men in clown costumes.

A 13-year-old US boy carrying a replica assault rifle is shot dead by police in California, a day after a fatal school shooting by a boy in Nevada.

Cuba is to scrap its divisive two-currency system in the latest financial reform rolled out by President Raul Castro, official media report.

Two officials in China are sacked after unauthorised restorers paint over ancient Buddhist temple frescos with cartoon-like figures from Taoist myths.