Telegraph, UK: A British woman drowned as she tried to save her friend's teenage daughter from a swollen river in the Caribbean.
Observer, Jamaica: The United States Embassy was not in a position to accommodate former fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, even if the Rev Merrick 'Al' Miller had succeeded in his mission to take him there, senior police officials have said.
ESPN, USA: FIFA is investigating allegations that Australia's 2022 World Cup bid team broke rules regarding the giving of gifts to the executive committee.
Las Vegas Sun, USA: A 20-year-old garbage collector in the South American country of Guyana has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a dead body after he allegedly exhumed the corpse of an elderly woman and had sex with it.
BBC, UK: Haitian President Rene Preval has set 28 November as the date when voters will elect his successor.
Reuters, Cuba: Human rights group Amnesty International urged Cuba to release political prisoners and take other measures to end what it called a "climate of fear" for government opponents, in a report issued on Wednesday.
Telegraph, UK: Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party bank roller, has formally declared to Parliament that he no longer heads a bank in the Central American country of Belize.
Nassau Guardian, Bahamas: Oil exploration in The Bahamas just got a little more intriguing, with license holder BPC noting "high quality" information stemming from a recent preliminary seismic survey, Guardian Business can confirm.
SKNVibes, St Kitts: Despite media reports that the new government of Trinidad and Tobago will not go ahead with the proposed economic union with countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), the sub-grouping is prepared to move on without that nation.
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