Nepal's army says it has finished draining a dangerous glacial lake near Mount Everest to a safe level.
The sudden collapse of the University of Sydney's famed jacaranda tree has triggered a wave of grief in Australia, with staff and alumni mourning a key piece of campus folklore.
Thousands of Japanese costume fans have joined forces for the Kawasaki Halloween parade - dressed as everything from a Chanel handbag to a Samsung Galaxy phone.
US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan says he accepts his Nobel Prize in literature, ending a silence since being awarded the prize earlier this month.
A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul.
Twitter has announced it is to close its video sharing service Vine about four years after it launched.
The use of camera drones has been made illegal in Sweden unless they are granted a special surveillance permit.
Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize with his racial satire The Sellout.
Smartwatch shipments declined by 51.6% year-on-year, according to a new report by market analysts IDC.
The gouge in the ground probably made by Europe's Schiaparelli probe as it hit the surface of Mars on Wednesday has been imaged by a US satellite.
Heavy rains brought flooding to parts of Hong Kong this week, but that was not enough not to stop one elderly man from enjoying his newspaper and coffee.
The first woman to ascend Everest, Japanese climber Junko Tabei, has died aged 77, her family say.
President Barack Obama has said Republican Donald Trump's insistence that he might not accept the election result is "dangerous".
Mexico expects to extradite drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States by February, the country's top security official says.
British and French officials have begun registering unaccompanied children in the Calais "Jungle" who are hoping to join relatives in Britain.
Two more women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, in the latest such allegations against the embattled Republican nominee.
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are investing in renewable energy in a serious way – a sign, perhaps, of rapid changes in the energy market.
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