IMF chief Christine Lagarde says the global economy is not growing fast enough and faces a number of risks to recovery.

Usain Bolt is disqualified from the men's 100m final at the World Athletics Championships as Yohan Blake takes gold.

Typhoon Nanmadol kills at least eight people in the Philippines and is heading to Taiwan, according to officials.

At least 20 people are killed and thousands displaced by flooding in and around the city of Ibadan in south west Nigeria.

Results from the Large Hadron Collider have all but killed the simplest version of a theory that physicists had hoped would update the current model of sub-atomic physics.

A huge "underground river" reportedly discovered beneath the Amazon is no such thing, researchers say.

Indian MPs express support for proposed changes to anti-corruption legislation which they hope will persuade an activist to end his hunger strike.

Three hundred troops arrive in Monterrey to bolster security in the northern Mexican city two days after armed men set fire to a casino, killing 52 people.