Many countries in the region - most recently Mexico - have decriminalized small amounts of drugs for personal use. The moves have followed decisions by left-leaning governments to limit cooperation with the US in recent years.
Outside the UN, thousands of Iranians from across the US - and beyond - protested Iran's elections and the continued detention of opposition supporters.
The Obama administration seized upon Iran’s disclosure of a nuclear site to marshal its own evidence and try to persuade wavering nations to take a hard line with the country.
AP - Backed by other world powers, President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is speeding down a path to confrontation and demanded that Tehran quickly "come clean" on all nuclear efforts and open a newly revealed secret site for close international inspection. He said he would not rule out military action if the Iranians refuse.
AP - Iran's newly revealed uranium enrichment plant is a heavily guarded, still-unfinished underground facility in the arid mountains near the holy city of Qom that will be able to produce nuclear fuel — or the payload for atomic warheads, Western intelligence officials and diplomats said Friday.
AP - The White House acknowledged for the first time Friday that it might not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January as President Barack Obama has promised.
A woman who had the wrong embryo implanted in her gave birth to a baby boy Friday. In a statement, Sean and Carolyn Savage congratulated the biological parents of the baby. The Savages said a fertility clinic mistakenly implanted another couple's embryo into Carolyn's uterus.
President Obama's accusations that Iran's nuclear program runs afoul of international agreements are "baseless," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told CNN's Larry King. Earlier, Obama said "Iran is on notice" regarding its nuclear efforts, and that the international community is united in its opposition.
Peter Devereaux is one of 20 retired Marines or sons of Marines who once lived at Camp Lejeune and are now suffering from breast cancer, a disease that strikes about one man for every 100 women who get it. All 20 fear that contaminated water on the base may have caused their illnesses, but the Marine Corps says no link has been found. Without it, the men are denied treatment by the VA.