Heavy rain has battered northern Mozambique as residents and relief workers confronted the widespread devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth which killed 38 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

Heavy rains have caused flash floods in western Afghanistan that killed dozens of people.

Gunmen at the weekend killed 17 people in the latest attack on villages in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, witnesses and police say.

Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 12 people in central Vietnam, officials say.

Hundreds of villagers have fled their homes in Nigeria's northeast after an attack by militants from the Boko Haram group.

An earthquake has hit northern Haiti, killing at least 14 people and sparking an overnight scramble to help towns in the impoverished Caribbean country battered by the shockwave.

It is the first vote held in the ex-Soviet country since mass protests pushed its former leader to resign.

At least 23 people have been killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland near Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.

World happiness levels are at their lowest level in over a decade, with the number of people who say they feel stressed and worried rising.

Suspecting the presence of a pneumonia-causing virus in the water supply, samples have been taken for analysis.