A former general promising to get tough on rampant crime and drug violence easily won Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, marking a shift to the right in the poor Central American nation.

The Arab League on Sunday called an emergency meeting on Syria's failure to implement its peace plan, as forces reportedly killed at least 19 demonstrators after prayers on one of Islam's holiest days.

One UN peacekeeper was killed and two others injured Sunday in an attack on a patrol in the southern part of Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region, the United Nations said in a statement.

China is likely to inject more than 1 trillion yuan ($158 billion) into the money market in the next two months via annual subsidies from the ministry of finance.

Thousands of protesters are gathering in Lafayette Square across from the White House exactly one year out from the presidential election to oppose a plan for a transnational oil pipeline they fear could harm the environment.

Twenty Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested after getting into a skirmish with police trying to clear their anti-corporate greed demonstration off the sidewalks, officials said.

Miss Venezuela, Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colimenares, was crowned the winner of the Miss World beauty pageant at a glitzy final ceremony in London on Sunday.

Against the backdrop of the Trinamool Congress' threat to pull out of UPA over the petrol price rise, NCP chief Sharad Pawar backed the government on the issue.