The BBC uncovers a plan within athletics' world governing body to delay naming Russian drug cheats before Moscow 2013.

Haiti's presidential run-off election has been postponed until January amid accusations of irregularities, the authorities say.

The US Food and Drug Administration will allow gay men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year.

A fire in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo has destroyed parts of a historic 19th Century railway station housing a popular museum.

The security forces in Burundi systematically killed dozens of people during violent repression in Bujumbura on 11 December, Amnesty International says.

A Beijing court convicts prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang for online comments, giving him a suspended jail sentence, says state television CCTV.

Rescuers pull out the first body from the Shenzhen landslide in China as signs emerge that several survivors are trapped alive in the rubble.

A new study says that wild bees in the US are declining in many areas because of increases in the amount of corn being grown for biofuel.