At least 150 inmates are on the run in Haiti after 170 escaped from a prison in Arcahaie on Saturday, 45km (30 miles) north of the capital Port-au-Prince.

A group of sailors freed after being held by Somali pirates for nearly five years ate rats to survive, one survivor tells the BBC.

The EU battles to rescue the Ceta trade deal with Canada after Belgium's Wallonia region rejected a Monday deadline.

China's Communist Party punished more than one million officials for corruption, the government says ahead of a major party meeting.

Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US.

A baby girl is "born" twice in Texas after surgeons cut open her mother's womb to remove a tumour that threatened to stop her heart.

Polling stations open for early voting in key battleground state of Florida, where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain in a tight race.

Protestant leaders in Austria criticise an anti-immigration presidential candidate for invoking the name of God in his political campaign.