Mexican police capture Jaime Herrera, who is accused of being a major producer of methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drugs cartel.

Venezuela's opposition says it has destroyed voting records from Sunday's primary elections despite a Supreme Court order that they be preserved.

A joint House-Senate panel comes to a tentative agreement to pass a year-long extension of the payroll tax cut, ending weeks of uncertainty.

Papua New Guinea names 183 people still missing from the ferry disaster two weeks ago, in a list published in a national newspaper.

Rio de Janeiro police and firefighters vote to end their pay strike, ahead of the annual carnival in the Brazilian city.

US President Barack Obama presses China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, on trade and human rights, as he welcomes him to the White House.

An American man accused of killing his wife on their Australian honeymoon by shutting off her oxygen tank while scuba diving goes on trial in Alabama.

Jet Airways suspends a pilot and a crew for allowing a trainee pilot to land a plane in the western city of Mumbai.