Russian rescue services have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared about 16km from its destination in the far-eastern Amur region.
The Angara airlines An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said.
Amur's regional governor Vasily Orlov said "all necessary resources" had been deployed to find the plane. Five children were among those on board, he added.
A landslide triggered by torrential monsoon rains has killed at least three people in northern Pakistan.
Rescue operations continued searching for 15 missing people.
More than eight vehicles were swept away on Monday when heavy rains triggered a landslide on a highway. Three dead bodies have been recovered.
Flash floods, collapsed buildings and electrocutions have killed 221 people since the monsoon season arrived in the country in late June, with heavier rains than usual.
A man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowd in the United States, outside a Los Angeles nightclub in California over the weekend, has been charged with 37 counts of attempted murder.
Fernando Ramirez, 29, a resident of Orange County’s San Clemente, was also charged with 37 counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Three people have died and more than 500 others have been rescued after a ferry caught fire off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, emergency officials said.
Passengers jumped overboard the KM Barcelona 5, as it sailed from Melonguane port in Talaud Islands district towards the city of Manado North Sulawesi province.
Cuban Minister for Labour, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, has been forced to resign after she made comments denying the existence of beggars on the Communist-run island.
The minister had said there was no such thing as "beggars" in Cuba and people going through rubbish were, in essence, doing so out of choice to make "easy money", as she put it.
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