More than 3,000 firefighters in Australia battle devastating bushfires raging across New South Wales with extreme weather conditions forecast.

US intelligence chief James Clapper says French press reports that the US collected data on French citizens' telephone calls are "false".

Suspected Libyan militant leader Abu Anas al-Liby, seized earlier this month in a US raid in Tripoli, appears for a second time in a New York court.

Australian fire officials say the threat to the Blue Mountains west of Sydney has been "averted" for the day, but warn the crisis is not yet over.

Facebook takes down a video clip showing a woman being beheaded and says it has revised its guidelines over graphic content.

Zimbabwean officials say they will not accept a return to conflict in neighbouring Mozambique, days after ex-rebels withdraw from a 1992 peace accord.

About three million people who developed tuberculosis in 2012 have been "missed" by health systems, the World Health Organization says.

India and China sign an agreement on border defence co-operation after a stand-off between their armies in disputed territory earlier this year.