Phaedra Al-Majid says she has experienced "fear and threats" since making corruption allegations against Fifa.

Police in Honduras arrest two men over the killing of beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and her sister who vanished on a night out last week.

A Chilean court orders the state to pay millions of dollars to a group of former political prisoners held on an isolated island during military rule.

Jimmy Ruffin, the Motown performer who scored his biggest hit with 1966's What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, dies in Las Vegas at the age of 78.

Colombia's Farc rebels reach an agreement with the government over the conditions necessary for releasing an army general and four others.

Representatives from the world's richest countries are meeting in Berlin to pledge money to smooth the way for a global climate change deal.

Germany's three left-leaning parties agree a historic deal which will see the first far-left state president since the fall of Communism.

The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research suggests.