Four elderly men from the US state of Georgia appear in court charged with plotting to murder officials using explosives and the lethal toxin ricin.

A third woman reportedly accuses leading Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos officially dissolves the country's intelligence agency, the DAS, after a series of scandals.

G20 leaders are set in France as Greece is warned it will not get any more eurozone cash until after its referendum.

Former Colombian beauty queen Angie Sanclemente is convicted of smuggling cocaine in Argentina.

China refuses to commit to the European Financial Stability Fund until the situation with Greece has been clarified.

Thousands of anti-corporate greed protesters shut down one of America's busiest ports, in the California city of Oakland.

Tibetan exile leader Lobsang Sangay urges US politicians to ask China for access to areas where monks have been setting alight to themselves.