Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff offers her condolences to the family of a woman who died after being dragged by a police car along a Rio street.

The European Court of Human Rights rules against Turkey over the jail conditions of Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty resigns after eight years in the job, announcing that he is returning to the private sector.

Officials in the US dismantle one of the largest online child pornography rings ever uncovered, the Department of Homeland Security says.

The US government has built a system that can record every single phone call made over a month in an undisclosed foreign country, US media report.

Italy's highest appeals court upholds a two-year ban from public office imposed on former PM Silvio Berlusconi after he was found guilty of tax fraud.

Russia tells the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable and will have "consequences".

Hundreds of students and activists opposed to a trade deal with China occupy Taiwan's parliament and defy police efforts to evict them.