Two storms hit Central America, triggering floods and landslides and leaving about 40 people dead in at least four countries, officials said.

Prosecutors are to seek the death penalty for Scott Dekraai, charged with murder over a salon shooting that killed eight people and wounded one other.

A Catholic bishop in the US is charged with covering up suspected child abuse in his diocese, in the first case of its kind.

The British public has donated £72m for victims of the devastating drought in East Africa, the most ever for a food crisis, UK aid agencies say.

China's Communist Party central committee begins its last plenum before leadership changes next year, but few details are expected to be released.

A prize-winning goat in Colorado is disqualified from competition after testing positive for an illegal feed additive, but its owners cry foul.

Laura Pollan, who founded the influential Cuban protest group, Ladies in White, has died, aged 63, after suffering from Dengue fever.

Four Caribbean football officials are banned by Fifa for their part in a cash-for-votes scandal in the run-up to the governing body's presidential election this year.