Powerful Typhoon Fitow makes landfall in eastern China, after triggering an evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime deserves credit for so far complying with a chemical weapons deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.

Rwanda strongly rejects "ludicrous" claims that it is helping train child soldiers for rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Two people, including a police officer, are killed by a bomb apparently targeting anti-polio campaigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus announces a $9.5bn (£5.9bn) deal with Japan Airlines, its first with the carrier, to sell 31 of its A350 planes.

A 16-year-old shot in the head by the Taliban for championing girls' rights to education says talking to the militants is the way forward.

Power cuts cripple life in parts of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh after protests against the formation of the new Telangana state.

US Secretary of State John Kerry defends the US seizure of a suspected al-Qaeda leader in Libya, who he said was a "legal and appropriate target".