Turkish President Erdogan intervened when a depressed man apparently threatened to throw himself off the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul, his office says.

A powerful earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan and is felt as far away as India, with damage reported in northern Pakistan.

A crowd vandalises a Muslim prayer hall in Corsica, following an attack on firefighters on the French Mediterranean island, officials say.

Some of the worst flooding in the region in decades drives more than 150,000 people from their homes in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

A Christmas Day bushfire destroys at least 53 homes in a famous Australian tourist area in southern Victoria state.

A fire at former US President Bill Clinton's childhood home in Arkansas is believed to have been caused by arson, officials say.

Twitter has clamped down on internet trolls by introducing a series of new measures to improve user safety, its European head Bruce Daisley says.

Dozens of people are reportedly missing and feared dead after a landslide hits a jade mining region in Myanmar's northern Kachin state.