Mexico's fight against drug gangs has led to a rise in abuses by security forces who are not being held to account, Human Rights Watch says.

Newcastle United rename St James' Park the Sports Direct Arena after owner Mike Ashley's company.

A groundbreaking deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital is expected to be confirmed later.

News International chairman James Murdoch faces MPs later after apparent discrepancies in phone-hacking evidence he gave this summer.

Italy's president says Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will step down within days, as the country's financial crisis deepens.

Asian shares open sharply lower following renewed fears over the eurozone debt crisis, after Italy's borrowing cost rose to a record high.

English councils have been conned out of at least £7m by criminals using information published on their own websites, a survey says.

Leaders of the largest county in the US state of Alabama vote to file for a multi-billion dollar bankruptcy, expected to be the costliest in US municipal history.