India's lower house of parliament passes a controversial bill that aims to provide subsidised food to two-thirds of the population.

A teenager dies of bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan, the first such case in the country for 30 years.

JP Morgan is ordered to pay Russian billionaire Leonard Blavatnik $50m in damages over losses he suffered during the US subprime crisis.

The US government will reach its debt limit by mid-October unless Congress acts quickly, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warns.

Colombian Farc rebels have killed at least 13 soldiers in an ambush, the army says, although the two sides are due to resume peace talks soon.

Firefighters struggle to contain a blaze that rages on near California's Yosemite National Park.

A large Texas church offers free measles jabs after being linked to an outbreak among families who had declined to be vaccinated.

UN chemical weapons inspectors are due to start a second day of investigations into last week's attacks in the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus.