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In Pakistan there are continued calls for urgent aid as the UN says more than 70-thousand children are at risk of dying from waterborne disease and malnutrition

The World Food Programme has called for the international community to do more to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by drought in north eastern Syria.

The BBC's James Reynolds takes a tour around Camp Hope in Chile where engineers are working on a new plan to rescue 33 miners who are trapped underground.

Thousands of people have joined a rally in Hong Kong to express their anger at the Philippines' handling of last week's tourist coach hijacking.

Thousands of Indonesians have been forced to leave their homes after a volcano erupted on the island of Sumatra.

Unesco has given Istanbul just a few months to improve its management of one of the world's most important World Heritage sites.

The government of the Caribbean island of Cuba is attempting to attract wealthy visitors by allowing the development of golf courses.

Tens of thousands of people have attended a controversial rally in Washington DC organised by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.

Tens of thousands of children in Pakistan are at risk of dying from malnutrition as floods continue to devastate the country, according to the UN.

Taliban fighters disguise themselves as US soldiers to launch attacks on two coalition NATO bases in East Afghanistan

Some of the Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed shaft have begun to show signs of depression, officials say.

Fresh flooding in southern Pakistan has displaced almost a million people in the past 48 hours, the UN has said.

In Thailand, "red shirt" anti-government protesters are beginning to gather in massive rallies again, three months after a huge street protest in Bangkok ended

France has rejected a report from the UN calling for an end to what it has called the collective deportation of Roma people from the country.

Jenin, in the West Bank, was a dangerous place to live during the second intifada - but now the town is booming.

Demand for spy technology is soaring in India.

There is growing evidence that the US economic recovery has stalled and could even go into reverse.

Stephen Smith considers what made Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis, so hugely influential, as a newly restored version of the sci-fi epic is premiered in London.

In Italy, a fence has gone up along a stretch of coastline south of Rome amid fears of a campaign to promote money-making private beaches.

Sommeliers in France and cork manufacturers in Portugal and Spain have launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to save the wine cork and persuade wine lovers to shun the increasingly popular screw cap.