At least 13 people have been killed after a powerful typhoon passed close to the Japanese capital, Tokyo, reports say.

The head of Europe's crime fighting agency has warned of the growing risk from organised crime groups using cyber-attacks to allow them to traffic drugs.

An explosion and subsequent fire at a gas storage plant in central Mexico leaves at least four people dead and three injured in Puebla state.

Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered what may be a half-tonne chunk of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year.

Two Turkish pilots kidnapped in Lebanon in August apparently in connection with the Syria conflict appear in a video on Lebanese television.

A ratings agency puts the US credit score under review, as stock markets dip and congressional efforts to raise the US debt ceiling descend into chaos.

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who covered data leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, says he is leaving Britain's Guardian newspaper.

Protesters clash with police in Brazil's largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, following peaceful marches in support of striking teachers.