G20 Finance Ministers are meeting in St Andrews, in Scotland to pursue an agenda of financial reform and economic recovery.

A look at what is behind the removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Honduran presidency and what this means for the country.

Meet the people - and wildlife - along one of Brazil's longest roads.

Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand faces a prolonged injury absence as the club try to find the cause of his problem.

The world's most powerful finance ministers are in St Andrews for a summit aimed at pulling the global economy out of recession.

The UK government has admitted that a new legally binding global treaty on climate change is highly unlikely to be agreed this year.

Striker Benni McCarthy is included in coach Carlos Alberto Parreira's first squad back in charge of South Afirca.

A chronology of key events

Seven members of an endangered Amazonian tribe have died from swine flu, an indigenous rights group says.

BBC journalist Ben Sutherland is travelling along the route of Brazil's controversial BR-319 - the road that cuts right through the Amazon rainforest.

Man Utd to bid £12m for Benfica star Angel Di Maria, plus other rumours

Colombian opposition groups react angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US are made public.

A Brazilian man surprises his family by turning up at his own funeral, reports say.

A chronology of key events

The organisers of the 2012 Olympics in London are putting £700m of contracts for the event out to tender.

The Box, a BBC-branded container, returns after a year trotting around the globe to illustrate how globalisation is affecting all our lives.

The BBC's Gary Duffy looks at how the African heritage of the Brazilian city of Salvador raises questions about race.

A look at the life and times of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who has died at the age of 100.

Fernando Torres does not need an operation to cure a groin injury, plus other rumours

Scotland is one of eight nations to express an interest in tendering to host the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.