Younger Castro steers Cuba to a new revolution
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Oil, foreign investment, free enterprise, and golf courses are on their way
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Oil, foreign investment, free enterprise, and golf courses are on their way
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
It's 20 minutes' drive from a 20,000-strong Native American reservation, which is now suing brewers and the town's off-licences
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
A woman who snatched a baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, has pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge at a federal courthouse in Manhattan.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
One of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels paid $4.5m (£2.85m) in bribes to officials in a state run by the country's main opposition party, a US court case has revealed.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
A US university has revealed that hundreds of degrees given out over the past 10 years should never have been awarded, and may be revoked.
11 February 2012 08:28 AM
A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty to plotting to kill US president Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country.
11 February 2012 08:16 AM
A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge yesterday as the girl's true mother wept in the courtroom.
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
The Argentine Foreign Minister, Hector Timerman, last night accused Britain at the United Nations of using the dispute over the Falkland Islands to escalate the militarisation of the South Atlantic, by sending the latest offensive hardware to the islands as well as nuclear submarines with nuclear payloads.
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Inevitability of victory by front-runner is suddenly in doubt as conservative rival surges in polls
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
The budding writing career of Bristol Palin, the daughter of the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, appears to have fallen on desperate times after an advert promising free copies of her memoir to those who join her at a booksigning event was posted on a classified advertising website.
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Officers tell tourists to stay away from famous carnival as walkout turns violent
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
The Pentagon has broadened the role of women serving in the US armed forces – but is still refusing to allow them to serve in front line combat.
10 February 2012 05:50 PM
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hopes that Argentina and Britain can avoid an escalation of their Falkland Islands dispute.
10 February 2012 03:58 PM
The streets of Rio de Janeiro were calm today, just hours after police officers went on strike and a week before glittering Carnival celebrations that typically draw 800,000 tourists were due to start.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
The discovery of a vast hidden archive may finally bring closure to those whose relatives 'disappeared' after being detained by the police or military