Construction workers employed on a project in Brazil ahead of next year's World Cup face slave-like conditions, a Labour attorney general's investigation says.

The owners of a Colorado cantaloupe farm linked to a 2011 food poisoning outbreak which killed 33 people are charged with selling contaminated food.

Russia and the US agree a draft UN resolution on ridding Syria of chemical weapons, diplomats say, ahead of a Security Council meeting.

The US secretary of state and the Iranian foreign minister meet at the UN to discuss Iran's nuclear programme - the highest-level talks since 2007.

Tuareg separatists in Mali say they are suspending participation in a peace deal, accusing the government of not respecting the accord.

Six Salvadoran inmates are killed in a prison north of San Salvador in what is believed to be case of gang score-settling.

Heavy rain causes fresh floods in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco, less than two weeks after two storms killed 139 people.

Spanish MPs are to consider putting the country back by an hour, after a report said this would improve eating, sleeping and working habits.