Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has appointed the country's first prime minister in more than 40 years - the tourism minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.
Honduras is dealing with a spate of prison riots that has left many dead and seriously injured.
The Philippines medical services are having to deal with deaths and serious illness after hundreds of people drank contaminated coconut wine.
Canadian police discussed shooting indigenous protesters who were trying to stop a natural gas pipeline from being built on their land.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it the most radical Queen’s Speech of a generation.
Britain's financial system is prepared for even a worst-case Brexit scenario with a hard exit from the European Union and a consequent trade war, the Bank of England has announced.
Venezuelan businessmen have taken advantage of his government’s quiet abandonment of price, currency and import controls to buy direct from US wholesalers including Costco and Walmart. It is a fascinating situation considering the mutual hostility between Venezuela and the US.
Cuba is bracing for the possibility of the United States breaking off diplomatic ties but will seek to maintain them nonetheless, Havana's top diplomat in charge of relations with Washington.
In Honduras, a gang of gunmen on motorcycles killed Pedro Ildefonso Armas, the director of the nation’s maximum-security prison.