Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told a Florida television station on May 3 that he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Negotiations between Greece and its international lenders over reforms to unlock remaining bailout aid have made headway and an agreement could be closer this month, a government official said on May 3.

Customs inspections at Kathmandu airport are holding up vital relief supplies for earthquake survivors in Nepal, a UN official said on May 2, as the death toll from the disaster a week ago passed 6,600.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Baltimore on May 2 as anger over the death of a young black man turned to hopes for change following swift criminal charges against six police officers.

Dozens of police and volunteers have exhumed 26 bodies at a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle, police said on May 2.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on May 2 the United States wanted to renew ties with Sri Lanka and announced the start of an annual bilateral dialogue after years of tensions with the island nation's former government.

Thousands of people were still missing in Nepal on May 1 as food and help began to trickle through to those stranded in remote areas after last week's earthquake which killed 6,250.

The world is doing far too little to combat the misuse of antibiotics which is fueling drug resistance and allowing long-treatable diseases to become killers, the World Health Organization said on April 29.

The US Senate rejected an effort on April 28 to require any nuclear agreement with Iran to be considered an international treaty, which would have forced any deal to be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate's 100 members.

The death toll from Nepal's devastating earthquake could reach 10,000, the prime minister said on April 28, as residents frustrated by the government's slow response used their bare hands to dig for signs of their loved ones.