WORLD

Reports suggested Russian President hurt back in hang glider flight with Siberian cranes.

Putin supporters rally in Moscow against Mormon Church as authorities crack down on foreign-funded organisations.

Online opposition China Republican party shut down after just one day and founder jailed in run-up to congress.

MPs from the Greek neo-nazi party Golden Dawn are reported to have taken part in a yet another race attack on.

MPs part of 150-strong mob which assaulted immigrants over alleged stabbing of local hairdresser.

Playboy Enterprises plans to open over 120 Playboy businesses including clubs, cafes and retail outlets in India over a period of ten years.

Suspect in custody after shooting at the Tutor Campus Center on the Southern California University Park leaves one person critically injured in Los Angeles.

US President Barack Obama and New Jersey governor Chris Christie visit regions hit by superstorm Sandy and promise all the help needed to rebuild.

Human rights group follows Hillary Clinton and EU's Catherine Ashton call for country to draw line under grim past and move to integration.

Renowned broadcast journalist held for TV claims about Anonymous-leaked exchange between government and troika of rescue lenders.

Antibodies, DNA strands and genetically modified mice all perish after flood and power cut at Smilow building.

Mexican TV shows mysterious object free-falling into volcano's crater.

Traditional Greenwich Village extravaganza of ghouls, ghosts and monsters abandoned for first time in 39 years.

French President Francois Hollande, has been commended by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is on a two day visit to France.

Battleground state of Ohio focus of row between Jeep/Chrysler and Republican candidate.

Greece finance minister announces amended 2013 budget that raises debt and deficit forecasts for 2013.

Another surfer was was seriously injured by a shark in California after Francisco Javier Solorio was killed by a great white last week.

Centuries-old skeletal remains of a human body have been discovered beneath a giant oak tree in Connecticut, which is uprooted by storm Sandy.

As pressure builds outside the Greek Parliament, with hundreds of people protesting over the harsh austerity measures imposed upon them, you only have to look inside to see what they are unhappy about.

Virgin Atlantic resuming service to US east coast but BA cancelling some flights.

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie praises Obama while Mitt Romney struggles in hurricane aftermath.

Seldom today does one hear of a person being charged with lese-majeste, yet 43-year-old Wang Zia Chao a Chinese garment factory supervisor was found guilty of this crime on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by a judge in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Her crime was "...intentionally damaging the photos..." of recently deceased former King Norodom Sihanouk who abdicated in favour of one of his sons in 2004 and died in Beijing, aged 89, on 15 October. The former King's body was flown back ...

Angela Dresch, 13, among more than 50 casualties of Superstorm Sandy that has devastated coastal districts of New York and New Jersey.

Joshua Ruzsa fell 150ft down a mountain near Echo Canyon after being attacked by bees while hiking.

Severe storm forces search on Mediterranean island of Porquerolles to be cancelled.

Explosion at Manhattan power station leaves nearly 200,000 houses without power.

Japan diverts a quarter of the budget meant for reconstruction of the Tsunami affected regions to unrelated projects, finds a government audit.

Transport and communication systems are badly hit and are expected to take days to return to normalcy.

Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Kurdish leaders eating kebabs while inmates on hunger strike.