The New York-based human rights organisation, Breakthrough, has launched a campaign to improve the conditions at immigration detention centres in the United States.
US shares have reportedly fallen sharply as investors exercise caution over whether the House of Representatives will back the revised bank rescue plan.
Activists from across Africa have joined hundreds of farmers and trade unionists in Ghana in a protest against the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
The authorities in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have found 16 bodies in a day, in what is believed to be part of a series of drug-related murders.
An opinion poll carried out for the BBC World Service is indicating that US-led efforts to tackle the al-Qaeda group are not regarded as being successful.
As the debate over the US$700 billion bank bailout rages on in Washington, one of the nation\'s largest banks, Washington Mutual Incorporated (WaMu) has collapsed under the weight of its enormous bad debts on the mortgage market.
The European Commission (EC) is imposing a ban on EU imports of Chinese baby food that contain any traces of milk, while other Chinese food will undergo tests.
