At least two Yemeni soldiers have died in clashes with Islamist militants in the restive southern city of Zinjibar, officials say.

Some of the forest fires raging in Chile may have been started intentionally, the government says, as firefighters battle to extinguish multiple blazes.

New York City police say a man has confessed to a string of arson attacks on an Islamic cultural centre and four other sites on New Year's Day.

A Canandian man who forgot his passport says that he used a scanned copy on his iPad to cross the US border to deliver Christmas presents.

Preliminary results from the Iowa caucuses show a tight three-way contest developing between Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.

A total of 2,270 workers in Brazil were rescued from "slave-like" conditions in 2011, the government says.

An Ecuadorean appeals court upholds a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution in a long-running battle.

Malaysia opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim begins a six-day, eight-state tour ahead of the verdict in his long-running sodomy trial.