A mayor in southern Brazil says his city may drop out of June's football World Cup if the state assembly does not pass key legislation this week.

Authorities in the north-western US state of Washington confirm at least 14 people were killed in Saturday's huge landslide that destroyed a town.

The India Ocean search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight is suspended for the day due to bad weather, Australian officials say.

Brazil's government says it will send federal troops to Rio de Janeiro to quell recent attacks targeting police ahead of the World Cup in June.

Venezuela strips a leading opposition congresswoman of her mandate after speech before the Organisation of American States (OAS) last week.

A man is in hospital in Canada with symptoms of a haemorrhagic fever resembling Ebola after travelling in west Africa, a health official says.

Senior researchers and government officials gather in Japan to agree a critical report on the impacts of global warming.

The supreme guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, is due to go on trial with more than 680 others on charges of incitement to kill.