US police say they want to search a house where they believe there is a mass grave containing up to 30 bodies in rural east Texas.

Antonio Palocci, the chief minister to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, resigns after coming under criticism for his high earnings while serving in the Brazilian Congress.

The Arizona wildfire that is forcing thousands to evacuate their homes continues to grow, and is now the second-largest in the state's history.

Germany's health minister says there is reason to be cautiously optimistic that an outbreak of a deadly new strain of E. coli has peaked.

It has taken more than 10 years but finally a US space shuttle is pictured docked to the International Space Station by a departing Soyuz capsule.

Failure to deliver justice for last year's killings of civilians in ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan could spark more violence, Amnesty International warns.

The world's worst food security crisis is putting millions of lives at risk in the eastern Horn of Africa, a US agency warns.

The Australian government suspends all live cattle exports to Indonesia in a growing row over alleged animal cruelty.