Protests have rocked Angola due to a hike in fuel prices leading to protests. Four people have been confirmed dead with more injured in the run down with the Police. People are responding to government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by 30% This has impacted transport fares by minibus taxis, the leading transport means many Angolans use.

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.

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.