US President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency in South Carolina, as rainfall is set to trigger more flooding across the east coast.

The death toll from a landslide on a village 15km away from the Guatemalan capital rises to 56, with 350 others still feared missing, authorities say.

Voters in Portugal are heading to the polls in a general election seen as a referendum on four years of austerity under the centre-right government.

The Pope is to open a synod of bishops focusing on the Church's teachings on the family, a day after a senior Vatican priest came out as gay.

At least 10 people have died after violent storms and flooding hit the French Riviera, including three elderly people who drowned in their retirement home.

President Obama promises a "full investigation" after suspected US air strikes on an MSF-run hospital kill at least 19 people in northern Afghanistan.

Charity MSF says staff have left its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was hit by air strikes it blames on US-led Nato forces

A teenager survived the Oregon shooting because she was covered in another victim's body and the attacker believed she was dead, her father says.