At least 48 hostages are now thought to have died in a siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say 25 bodies found at the complex on Sunday were all captives.

The Brazilian city of Campo Grande is on high alert as hundreds of people a day are infected with dengue fever, a flu-like illness which can be lethal.

The fast-tracked trial of five Indian men over the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman is due to start in Delhi.

San Francisco reach their first Super Bowl since 1995 after shrugging off a dreadful start to stun the Atlanta Falcons 28-24.

A court in Nicaragua gives maximum jail sentences to 18 people caught crossing the border with $9.2m while posing as journalists from Mexican TV.

A suicide attack is launched on a traffic police building in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say, the second such attack in less than a week.

A shrinking world economy is painful for many, but girls and women are suffering from the effects of recession

US safety officials widen their probe into a Japan Airlines-operated Boeing 787 Dreamliner after ruling out overcharging as a cause of a battery fire.