Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is at death's door in the care of his family at home in Tripoli, CNN says.

President Obama warns flooding and power cuts are still a risk as a weakened Tropical Storm Irene heads north, away from the battered US east coast.

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera says he will do everything necessary to discover why a teenager was shot and killed during anti-government protests last week.

Taiwan deploys 35,000 troops as Tropical Storm Nanmadol sweeps into the island after carving a swathe of destruction across the Philippines.

Two candidates - Yoshihiko Noda and Banri Kaieda - run off as MPs from the governing Democratic Party elect Japan's sixth prime minister in five years.

Venezuela's President Chavez is to have a third round of chemotherapy in the capital Caracas, after having a cancerous tumour removed in Cuba in June.

Sino-Forest Corporation's CEO Allen Chan resigns amid allegations of an accounting fraud by the Ontario Securities Commission.

Singer Beyonce has outlined a baby bump to photographers after months of speculation she might be pregnant.