Sports giant Adidas says it is suspending the sale World Cup t-shirts after Brazil's authorities complained they sexualised the country's image.

The obesity rate among young US children fell by 43% since 2003-2004, the first broad decline in years, according to a new study.

Mexican courts order the drug baron Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman to remain in prison awaiting trial on new organised crime charges.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Ukraine is not caught in a battle between East and West, as tensions rise in mainly-Russian speaking areas.

Scientists think they can now explain the discovery of a graveyard of fossil whales in Chile that accumulated more than five million years ago.

A German cartoonist who depicted Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a hook-nosed octopus apologises for causing offence.

Credit Suisse "helped its US customers conceal their Swiss accounts" and avoid American taxes, a US report alleges.

Italian PM Matteo Renzi wins a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament, backing his government's programme of rapid reforms.