Flanked by his wife, New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admits sending lewd messages to a woman yet again, but refuses to quit the race.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sacks his entire cabinet, in an apparent power struggle with the vice president.

The second of three women found dead wrapped in rubbish bags last week in an Ohio suburb - a 28-year-old mother - is identified.

A poster campaign is launched in Germany aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals not yet brought to justice.

Transport officials in Canada issue an emergency directive toughening up rail regulations after a deadly accident in Quebec earlier this month.

At least one person dies and dozens are missing after an asylum seeker boat heading for Australia sinks off the Indonesian coast.

Clashes between police and armed drug gang members leave 22 people dead in Mexico's Michoacan state, officials say.

A group of friends snorkelling off the coast of California got closer then they expected to a pair of feeding humpback whales.