Pakistanis are set to vote amid tight security, in elections that mark the country's first-ever transition from one civilian government to another.

A judge suspends a deal giving control of Brazil's biggest stadium to a private consortium, saying there were irregularities in the bidding process.

An Islamic community in the US state of Virginia is said to be furious after it emerged a Boston bombing suspect was buried at a rural cemetery there.

A court in Guatemala finds former leader Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide against indigenous groups in the early 1980s.

The grandson of US political activist Malcolm X dies in Mexico City following a fight in a bar, prosecutors say.

Egyptian security forces detain prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher on suspicion of inciting an anti-government protest in March.

A senior Vatican official says the Mexican folk saint Santa Muerte, represented by a skeletal figure is a "degeneration of religion".

An explosion at a coal mine in China's south-west Guizhou province kills 12 miners and injures two others, state media report.