Guatemala must do more to stop high numbers of women being killed across the country, Amnesty International has said.
Despite continual disinfecting efforts, he says his 169 cattle fell victim to foot-and-mouth disease last year, and like so many other farmers across the country, he had to have them killed. Now he lives on an empty farm with his wife.
The US Army has charged a soldier held in connection with the leak of US government documents published by the Wikileaks website with 22 extra counts.
Global food prices have hit record highs, and could rise even further, according to the United Nations.
The United Nations refugee agency says over the past 10 days, more than 140,000 people have fled to Egypt and Tunisia from Libya. The UNHCR says tens of thousands of people are stuck at the borders and in urgent need of help.
The northern Libyan city of Benghazi is the beginning and crux of the revolt against Col Muammar Gaddafi.
A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, seriously injuring people and damaging buildings throughout the city.
The authorities in Egypt have arrested three ex-ministers for corruption including the former Interior Minister, Habib el-Adly, judicial sources say.
US President Barack Obama says the Egyptian government has yet to put forward a "credible, concrete and unequivocal" path to democracy.
Military officials from North and South Korea are holding their first talks since the North shelled a South Korean island in November, leaving four dead.