US President Barack Obama pledges his support to the Michigan city beset by a water contamination crisis, saying people have been "short-changed".

Asian shares are mixed after turmoil on financial markets saw European and US indexes tumble following another fall in the oil price.

New figures from Brazil's Health Ministry show a further rise in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads to mothers infected with Zika.

A US watchdog attacks a Pentagon agency for "ill-conceived" reconstruction projects in Afghanistan, including an attempt to import goats.

Vietnam's Communist Party delegates are meeting in Hanoi for their five-yearly congress in Hanoi, where a new set of leaders will be chosen.

South Australia's premier apologises to a UK widower after state authorities refused to recognise his marriage on his husband's death certificate.

Vigils are held in Peshawar and elsewhere in Pakistan after at least 21 people were killed in an assault on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.

The long-awaited findings of a public inquiry into the killing in London of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are due to be released by a judge.