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50 years ago, Ruby Bridges made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.
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An overview of the sole French territory in North America
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America's "beer capital" is undergoing a revival with small craft brewers racing to fill the void left by the sale of Anheuser Bush, the largest national brewer, to Belgian beverage giant InBev.
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Key facts and figures from Brazil, showing wealth and population distribution, as well as its GDP growth.
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A report into a private jet crash in which five people were killed finds a missing rivet may have led to the shutdown of an engine.
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The man accused of attempting to bomb New York's Times Square appears in court for the first time since his arrest.
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At least 12 people die after a bomb on a bicycle explodes near a police vehicle in the Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.
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As flights slowly begin to take off again in Europe after days of travel chaos, Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, reflects on the beauty and pain of travel - both by air and by ground.
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The political fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already becoming apparent, the BBC's Paul Adams in Louisiana finds.
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Images from the flooding that has submerged parts of the historic Tennessee city of Nashville.
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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A court convicts 26 men accused of working for Hezbollah of planning terrorist attacks on ships and tourist sites.
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Four Palestinians die in a smuggling tunnel under Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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Bangladeshi film industry representatives say they have forced the government to retain a ban on cinemas showing Indian films.
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US Treasury Secretary Geithner calls on the IMF, the EU and the Greek government to act fast to tackle Greece's debt crisis.
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Eleven suspected Somali pirates are charged in a US court after being captured by the US Navy off the coast of Africa.
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Celebrations take place in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to mark 200 years since the start of the process that led to independence from Spain.
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Uruguay should have told Argentina about plans for a pulp mill on their shared river but the plant can continue working, the world court rules.
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US President Barack Obama says it should be possible to send astronauts to orbit the planet Mars by the mid-2030s.
