A billionaire hedge fund manager has been charged with failing to stop insider trading at his firm, the Securities and Exchange Commission says.

A week of talks by Portugal's three main parties on how to end a political crisis has broken down, leaving the country's bailout programme in doubt.

Colombia's Farc rebel group says it has captured a US soldier and is willing to release him to prove its commitment to the current peace process.

Order has been restored at an Australian-run immigration detention camp in the Pacific island state of Nauru after rioting broke out on Friday.

A woman has spoken of the moment doctors discovered flesh-eating maggots in her ear after a trip to Peru.

Six urban security personnel are detained by police investigating the death of a fruit seller in southern China, state media report.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tells supporters he will fight and win the Moscow mayoral vote, after being freed from jail pending appeal.

Venezuela says it has "ended" steps towards restoring diplomatic ties with the US, after comments by the putative next US envoy to the UN.