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

Federal agents have been asked to stay away from Def Con - one of the world's biggest hacking and security gatherings.

Canadian police say 20 bodies have been found since the oil train disaster in Quebec, and another 30 missing people are "most probably dead".

Al-Qaeda's suspected 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed asked his CIA captors if he could pass the time by designing a vacuum cleaner, a report says.

Fragments of two ancient stone axes found in China could display some of the world's earliest primitive writing, Chinese archaeologists say.

A court in Burma sentences 23 people to prison terms for their role in violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the town of Meiktila in March.

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.