A Pennsylvania couple is found dead in their home after their seven-year-old girl went to school and told a bus driver she could not wake them.

The former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, diplomats say.

Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding US citizens via a fake call centre.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence and his Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine face off in their only debate of the election.

Theresa May will call for a "new approach" to politics where the government is a "force for good" as she closes the Conservative conference.

A woman who helped her husband fake his own death says she will feel guilt "for the rest of my life" for lying about it to her two sons.

US President Barack Obama can "go to hell" over his criticism of the Philippines brutal war against drugs, President Rodrigo Duterte says.

The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has left thousands of people displaced in Haiti, with officials still trying to reach the worst-hit areas to assess the damage.