A new study finds that a longstanding flow of immigration has been reversed - more Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there.

Costa Rica detains a Syrian woman with a fake Greek passport, days after five illegal Syrian migrants were arrested in Honduras.

Using high-speed cameras, scientists glimpse songbirds doing a rapid-fire dance that is invisible to the naked eye.

A top Spanish lawyer launches a petition calling for the removal of the remains of former military leader General Franco from their official resting place.

Most of the Reserve Bank of India's 17,000 employees went on strike in what the central bank described as "mass casual leave".

Voting begins in New Zealand in the first stage of a referendum which could see the country getting a new national flag.

Kuwait has arrested alleged members of a cell accused of supplying funds and weapons to the so-called Islamic State (IS), state media says.

Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed for life in 1987 for spying for Israel, is due to be released from a North Carolina prison.