Families huddled in parks and car parks in the northern Mexican border city of Mexicali on Monday after aftershocks from a big earthquake.

Space shuttle Discovery has blasted off on one of Nasa's final servicing missions to the International Space Station.

Nine miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China have been rescued after more than seven days underground.

Militants attacked the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday but were held off by security forces.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a police station in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.