Former Environment Minister Marina Silva joins the Brazilian Socialist Party after failing to officially register her new party.

US special forces have carried out two separate raids in Somalia and Libya targeting senior Islamist militants, American officials say.

Venezuela's government plans to use fingerprint machines to check passengers at its borders and prevent a popular travel scam known as "the scrape".

Prosecutors in Argentina request a six-year prison term for former President Fernando de la Rua over a bribery scandal.

An investigation is under way after a police chase through the heart of Washington DC ended with a woman driver shot dead and two officers injured.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad raises the possibility of Germany acting as a mediator to try to end his country's 30-month-long civil war.

Four soldiers with international forces in southern Afghanistan are killed, reportedly by a roadside bomb.

Egypt's military-backed authorities have released two Canadians held without charge for seven weeks, the Canadian government says.