The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development has warned that the eurozone’s debt crisis is not over and banks in the bloc remain weak.

Timothy Geithner told EU finance ministers to end talk about a eurozone break-up and work with the European Central Bank to fight the debt crisis.

Financial market pressure on the euro zone eased a little this week as Italy’s borrowing costs fell and bank shares stabilised.

Mexican marines killed drug baron Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight at the US border on Friday.

In January, gunmen kidnapped, tortured and shot dead Mexican reporter Valetin Valdes before dumping his body outside a motel.