The US Senate completes congressional approval of an annual defence bill of $560bn which expands the military campaign against Islamic State.

The International Criminal Court prosecutor shelved her probe into war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region because of what she calls a lack of UN backing.

Heavy rains in southern California trigger mudslides and flooding, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of homes.

Following several incidents involving drunken sailors, the Canadian Royal Navy introduces a near-total ban on alcohol on board its ships.

At least eleven people have died and more than 100 are missing after a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over his country's first state commemoration of the Nanjing massacre, committed by Japanese troops in 1937.

Indian police arrest a man suspected of running an influential pro-Islamic State Twitter feed.

Police say Taliban gunmen have killed 12 landmine clearers in Helmand province, after two other deadly attacks in and near the capital, Kabul.