UK PM David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are in Libya, the most senior Western leaders to visit since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.

China has sentenced four people to death over unrest in the ethnically-torn Xinjiang region, state media reported Thursday, after vowing to crack down on "terrorism" in the troubled far-western area.

Australian passports will now have three gender options — male, female and indeterminate — under new guidelines to remove discrimination against transgender people, the government said Thursday.

The Dutch state is responsible for executions committed by colonial troops at an Indonesian village in 1947 and relatives of victims should be compensated, a Dutch court has ruled.

Militants based in Pakistani safe havens are stepping up cross-border attacks in Afghanistan as security cooperation between the United States and Pakistan remains under severe strain, US officials said.

At least 30 people were killed, including three generals, when an Angolan military aircraft crashed on Wednesday at an airport in Huambo, local media said.

The UN General Assembly opened its 66th session at the UN Headquarters in New York on September 13.

New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has called for nuclear plants halted after the Fukushima crisis to be restarted.

A historic drought in southern China has caused billions of dollars in losses to agriculture and left millions of people and animals short of drinking water, government officials said on September 13.

A series of suicide attacks by the Taliban militants in Afghan capital Kabul on September 13 left 12 people including five suicide bombers dead and injured 21 others, including four in the US embassy.