Archive footage has been uncovered of a group of beavers being parachuted into wilderness in the US.

Mortar rounds are fired at protesters in Benghazi in eastern Libya killing six and wounding dozens, in an attack officials blame on Islamists.

Category Five Hurricane Patricia, the strongest on record, has made landfall in Jalisco state in western Mexico, meteorologists say.

Venezuela's Central Bank has filed a lawsuit in the US state of Delaware against DolarToday website, accusing it of cyberterrorism.

A bomb attack on Shia Muslims in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka kills one person and wounds at least 50 others.

Direct flights between Ukraine and Russia will stop at midnight on Saturday, as new sanctions initiated by Kiev come into effect.

Mexico's president warns Hurricane Patricia still poses a threat through heavy rain, as it is downgraded to a Category Two storm.

The Maldives vice-president has been arrested and is facing treason charges over an alleged plot to assassinate the president, a minister says.