Ivory Coast's UN-recognised President, Alassane Ouattara, urges restraint after the capture of his bitter rival Laurent Gbagbo.

A US citizen originally from Pakistan is jailed for 23 years after admitting joining what he thought was a plot to bomb the Washington DC Metro system.

Libya's former foreign minister warns against civil war taking hold in Libya, in his first public comments since his defection.

Mexican officials find another 16 bodies in mass graves in Tamaulipas state, close to where they discovered 72 bodies last week.

Police find suspected human remains in two locations near a New York beach highway, in the same area where eight corpses have already been discovered.

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko says a deadly blast in the Minsk metro system was an attempt to destabilise the country.

Iraq's government says members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces.

Peru's presidential election will go to a second round on 5 June, pitting former army officer Ollanta Humala against Keiko Fujimori, daughter of disgraced ex-leader Alberto Fujimori.