US investment bank JP Morgan has agreed to pay $4.5bn (£2.8bn) to investors who lost money on mortgage-related securities during the financial crisis.

Emergency workers with police escorts will start cleaning the streets of the Madrid on Saturday after talks failed to end an 11-day strike.

Brazil starts jailing high-profile politicians convicted last year in the country's biggest corruption trial, the "Mensalao" (big monthly allowance).

Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right faction has split, dealing another political setback to the former Italian prime minister, as he prepares to relaunch Forza Italia.

Guinea's Supreme Court upholds September's election results which saw President Alpha Conde's RPG party win the most seats.

Florida authorities search for the body of a man who reportedly fell from a plane into the Atlantic Ocean near Miami on Thursday.

The US is quietly offering as much as $10m (£6.2m) for information about the attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans.

Bones found in the southern California desert are believed to be the remains of a California family that went missing in 2010.