A new record is set for the highest temperature recorded in October - at 29.9C (85.8F)

Texas governor Rick Perry says he would consider US military intervention in Mexico's drug conflict if he were to win the US presidency in 2012.

A Red Cross team visits the Libyan city of Sirte, still held by Gaddafi loyalists, and reports a desperate need for medicines as fighting continues.

About 500 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement are arrested as they try to march across New York's Brooklyn Bridge.

Wales tackle Pool D opponents Fiji at the Waikato Stadium in Hamilton.

David Cameron is to pledge to boost the "right to buy" scheme for council housing, as the Tories prepare to open their autumn conference.

Ireland secure a World Cup quarter-final match against Wales by comfortably beating Italy in Dunedin.

Prime Minister David Cameron warns that it would be "very bad" for the UK if the eurozone was to break up.