The evacuation of a plane that crash-landed in San Francisco was delayed because pilots initially said passengers should stay put, an official says.

Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva rejects calls for early elections, saying they should coincide with the end of bailout conditions next year.

One person is killed in the Dominican Republic as Tropical Storm Chantal skirts the southern coast of the island of Hispaniola.

A Moscow court is due to deliver a verdict in the tax fraud case against late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose death has strained US-Russian ties.

The Egyptian foreign ministry insists ousted President Mohammed Morsi is being held in a safe place and treated with dignity.

Brazilian indigenous people in the Amazon region block one of the country's most important railways in a protest for better public services.

More than 20 people remain missing in the wake of a landslide caused by heavy rain in China's Sichuan province, state media report.

An Indian court is due to deliver its verdict on a teenager accused of taking part in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a Delhi bus.