The US Treasury freezes the assets of an alleged Honduran drug lord accused of smuggling cocaine to Mexico's powerful cartels.

The US Senate is set to hold a crunch vote on Thursday on whether to debate a gun control law, as a conservative blockade begins to splinter.

UK researchers develop an air-dropped projectile to put instruments in some of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica.

Use of the death penalty is dropping around the world, despite some countries resuming executions in 2012, a new Amnesty International study finds.

Cuban authorities say they will turn over a US couple accused of kidnapping their two sons from their grandparents and fleeing to Cuba by boat.

KPMG, one of the world's largest accountancy firms, has resigned as auditor to Herbalife and Skechers amid claims against a former employee.

Save the Children says the majority of victims of rape and other sexual violence in many of the world's conflict zones are often children.

The start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group of UK MPs says.