The return of worries over global growth prospects sends US stocks tumbling, with the Dow Jones suffering its worst losses of 2014.

The return of worries over global growth prospects sends the oil price and US shares tumbling in their biggest drop of the year.

Four more mass graves are found in the southern Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing after clashed with police last month.

Police in Anchorage, Alaska, release a report describing a drunken brawl involving the son and daughter of Republican luminary Sarah Palin.

Venezuela must pay oil giant Exxon Mobil $1.6bn (£1bn) in compensation for assets expropriated in 2007, says a World Bank panel.

Asian shares are trading in negative territory after concerns about the global economy spurred a slide in stock prices on Wall Street.

The World Health Organisation warns that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three worst-affected countries and is accelerating.

The US state of Oklahoma unveils its newly remodelled death chamber, where at least three men are scheduled to be executed before year's end.