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Socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro has won a narrow victory in Venezuela's presidential poll.

Two-thirds of UK children feel under pressure to cheat at sports because of a "win-at-all-costs" culture on the playing fields, a survey suggests.

Prisoners and guards have clashed at Guantanamo Bay as authorities moved inmates, many of whom are on hunger strike, out of communal cellblocks.

French government ministers are due to reveal details of their personal wealth as part of efforts by Francois Hollande to regain public trust.

Downing Street has released an initial list of invitations to Baroness Thatcher's funeral next Wednesday.

The acting editor of a pro-opposition newspaper in Bangladesh has been arrested on several charges, including sedition, police say.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.

A Turkish investment association, MUSAID, is to invest $1.5 billion in Ghana’s economy.

The funeral of Baroness Thatcher will take place on Wednesday, 17 April, Downing Street has announced.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula may become "uncontrollable".

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Eleven children have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say.

For the first time, prosecutors in Brazil will investigate allegations of corruption against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Nick Clegg is expected to launch the Liberal Democrats' local election campaign by claiming the Conservatives waste taxpayers' money.

A visit to Cuba by US pop singer Beyonce and her rap star husband Jay-Z is coming under scrutiny in connection with the US economic embargo.

Alive Health Check, one of the newly created modules under the Ghana Youth Employment Entrepreneur Development Agency (GYEEDA) programme, has begun on a pilot basis in the Greater Accra Region.

Catastrophic flash floods have killed 57 people in the province of Buenos Aires, while hundreds more remain homeless, officials say.

The UN says it is suspending all its food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip after protesters, angered by aid cutbacks, stormed one of its compounds.

Pope Francis has called for "decisive action" in the fight against sex abuse of minors by priests.