Seven-times world boxing champ Manny Pacquiao arrives home to a new fight for a career in politics.
Zimbabwe was once considered southern Africa's bread-basket until Presidents Mugabe's controversial land reforms gave white-owned farms to landless blacks.
A rescue operation is underway for many still trapped after a gas blast at a coal mine in China.
A Brazilian transsexual involved in an Italian political scandal is believed to have burned to death
In the United States, the Congress debated lifting the five-decade long travel embargo for American citizens to Cuba.
Peruvian police arrest a criminal gang accused of killing of dozens to extract the fat from their bodies to make beauty products for cosmetics companies.