US comedian Bill Cosby is urged to waive the statute of limitations and allow women alleging he sexually abused them to go to court.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor investigates opposition figure Maria Corina Machado over an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

People in the Philippines brace for Typhoon Hagupit, a powerful storm expected to hit the areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan on Saturday.

Islamic State has set up training camps in militant-held areas of eastern Libya, the general heading the US Africa command says.

The US justice department is to probe the death of a black man after a New York grand jury cleared the white officer who put him into a chokehold.

Capt Georgina Sutton, flying for Jetstar, becomes the first woman to be appointed chief pilot for an Australian airline.

Militants have killed at least three traffic police officers before storming a building in the Chechen capital, Grozny, Russian security officials say.

President Vladimir Putin is expected to focus on Russia's economy when he delivers his annual state of the nation address to parliament later.