Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions".
Three people were killed on Saturday and dozens injured when an aircraft burst into flames before take-off on a runway at an airport in Russia's Far North, officials said.
A spokesman for Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Saturday that the West African bloc ECOWAS must use military force soon to oust Laurent Gbagbo or he would become entrenched in power.
Rioting prisoners torched buildings at a low-security British jail on Saturday, an incident the prison guards' union said highlighted the risks of of government plans to slash spending on the justice system.
The son of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning, asked the Iranian judiciary on Saturday to spare his mother's life.