The son of a private investigator linked to a GlaxoSmithKline corruption investigation in China has been allowed to visit his father.

A medical examiner has ruled that a police officer's "chokehold" caused the death of a man in New York.

President Barack Obama has defended CIA Director John Brennan and acknowledged the US tortured prisoners after 9/11.

In the first hearing since Argentina defaulted on its debts, US judge Thomas Griesa calls for negotiations to be resumed urgently.

The military wing of the Islamist group insists it is not holding a missing Israel soldier and says he could have died in an Israeli air strike.

Mexican journalists denounce a new law that introduces a number of restrictions on crime reporting in north-eastern Sinaloa state.

A $694m (£412m) bill to strengthen the US border with Mexico clears the House of Representatives but won't reach the Senate.

An online campaign for a baby with Down's Syndrome left with his surrogate Thai mother by an Australian couple has raised over $120,000 (£70,000).