Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, will be able to stay in his job after a Canadian court ruled against a removal order in a conflict of interest case.

At least 36 people have died and nearly 70,000 have been displaced because of flooding in Mozambique, the United Nations says.

More than 2% of Portugal's population have emigrated in the past two years, according to a government official with responsibility for overseeing the subject.

The UN wants to set up an intervention force to fight rebels fuelling conflict in DR Congo, a UN peacekeeping official says.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais apologises after withdrawing a photo of a sick Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez which it now says is a fake.

Antiguan plans to run a website that ignores copyright has been branded "government-authorised piracy".

Brazil says it will carry out a detailed survey of the Amazon rainforest in an effort to catalogue its trees and record levels of deforestation.

At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a prison riot in western Venezuela, hospital staff say.