President Barack Obama is expected to ask Congress for about $50bn in extra emergency aid for states hit by storm Sandy, Democrats and officials say.

The scale of the battering the Moon received early in its history is revealed in remarkable new data from two Nasa satellites.

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century's most famous modernist buildings, dies, aged 104.

Apple and Samsung return to court to argue whether a $1.05bn (£652m) patent award should be overturned or the sum increased.

Cuba accuses Washington of lying about the health of a US man serving a 15-year jail term in Havana for smuggling illegal internet equipment.

A human rights group urges Singapore to drop charges against four Chinese bus drivers accused of instigating a strike at transport firm SMRT.

Possession of marijuana is poised to become legal in the US state of Washington, a month after voters opted for decriminalisation.

More than 300 die and hundreds are missing after Typhoon Bopha cut a swathe of devastation across the southern Philippines, officials say.