Five Mexico internationals test positive for the banned substance clenbuterol.

A former head of the Guatemalan national police is arrested over his alleged role in the disappearance of student leader Fernando Garcia in 1984.

The family of the renowned Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo - who died on hunger strike early last year - have left their country for the US.

Iraq will ask the US to keep a troop presence in the country beyond an end-of-2011 pullout deadline, says the probable next US defence secretary.

A Chicago businessman is found guilty of backing Islamic militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks, but is cleared of a more serious charge.

The organisers of the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix say they accept the decision that the race will not take place in their country later this year.

Humankind's most distant emissaries are flying through a turbulent sea of magnetism as they seek to break free of our Solar System.

Alabama passes one of America's most stringent immigration laws, requiring - among other things - schools to find out if students are there illegally.