The Japanese carmaker Honda is recalling more than 400,000 vehicles in North America to fix a potential problem with the ignition switch on automatic models. In a statement, Honda said that if the switch was warm, the driver could pull out the key after driving without the gear lever in park mode; if the parking brake was off, the car could roll.
The Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon is having emergency heart surgery after falling ill just two days after he assumed his post. Mr Garzon, who's 63, was said to be conscious and stable when he arrived at hospital, complaining of chest pains. A former trade union leader and regional governor, he was sworn into office by Colombia's new President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday.
A former British soldier has become the first known person to walk the length of the Amazon, the world's second longest river. Ed Stafford took 859 days to walk from the origin of the Amazon in the mountains of Peru to its mouth on the coast of Brazil, a distance of 6,400 kilometers. During his epic trek, he suffered countless mosquito bites, was wrongly accused of murder and was chased by tribesmen. But in video footage for a documentary, Mr Stafford said the bad times were not nearly as bad as many had predicted.
"Everyone told me I was crazy when I was doing this. I have been told I was gonna be killed so many times, I can't remember how many times. And, but I'm not dead, I’m here now and, yeah, anyone can achieve what they wanna achieve if they work hard enough."