10 November 2013 Last updated at 08:31 GMT
With crime rates soaring and distrust in the state's ability to tackle it, people have taken to social media to boost security
Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines
Around 10,000 people may have died in just one area of the Philippines hit by Typhoon Haiyan, according to officials.
One of the worst storms on record, it destroyed homes, schools and an airport in the eastern city of Tacloban.
Neighbouring Samar island was also badly affected, with reports of 300 people dead and 2,000 missing.
The Philippine government has so far only confirmed the deaths of 151 people throughout the country, but hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports that the scene in Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province, is one of utter devastation.
Latin Americans combat crime with smartphones and social media
With crime rates soaring and distrust in the state's ability to tackle it, people have taken to social media to boost security
In Latin America, where violent crime rates are six times higher than in any other region, and where most residents have reported distrust in the state's ability to fight crime, several communities have taken to social media to boost security, say analysts.
"Violent crime in Latin America undermines the social fabric of communities [and poses] a major human security threat to populations who live in slum areas," says Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a US-based non-profit security policy group.
Violent crime has soared in the past decade with murder rates for South and central America four times the global average in 2011, at 29 per 100,000 people, according to a 2013 UN Development Programme (UNDP) report.
Inspiration or danger? Private schools in Pakistan ban Malala Yousafzai's book
Tens of millions of Pakistani children will struggle to lay their hands on the book written by Malala Yousafzai after the organisation representing the country's private schools decided to ban it.
The All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, which says it represents more than 152,000 institutions across the country, has decided that allowing pupils to read the book, I am Malala, would have a "negative" effect on them. The federation also said it believed the book was not entirely respectful of Islam.
The book will not be included in the schools' curriculum, nor will it be stocked in school libraries. Pakistan's most elite schools belong to the federation. The government does not plan to teach it in state schools, though it is not banned.
Iran nuclear talks end without agreement
November 10, 2013 - 11:28AM
Geneva: Iran and world powers failed to agree on a deal limiting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program after four days of talks that included high-ranking diplomats from the seven countries represented at the negotiations.
The next round of talks has been scheduled for November 21, according to an Iranian diplomat. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said more work was needed to reach a deal.
While the sides signalled a willingness to compromise, they couldn’t strike a balance between Iran’s intention to pursue its nuclear ambitions and the limited sanctions relief world powers were prepared to offer.
Burundi president builds schools, but education remains weak
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has built more schools in his eight years in power than all of his predecessors put together, but education levels are still at an all-time low.
When Nkurunziza came to power in 2005, he immediately declared primary education free, a widely welcomed policy which resulted in the number of children registered for primary school tripling in a year.
In some schools, as many as 200 children piled into classrooms built to accommodate a fraction of that number.
"It was one of the biggest rushes to get children into school that we've ever seen," said Johannes Wedenig, UN children's agency Unicef's chief for Burundi.
Soon, Burundi ran into the problem of insufficient schools, said Willy Nyamitwe, one of Nkurunziza's spokesmen.
Saudi police clash with foreign workers after visa raids
Saudi Arabian police clashed with foreign workers in a poor district of Riyadh on Saturday, nearly a week into a visa crackdown in which thousands have been detained and one man killed by police.
Security forces in riot gear fired into the air and used truncheons to disperse large crowds as scores of men ran through the streets, some throwing stones and other objects at cars and police, according to Reuters witnesses.
Two people were killed of which one was a Saudi while the other one was unidentified, the Saudi police said in a statement late on Saturday after it detained 561 people involved in the disturbances in the Manfuhah neighborhood of southern Riyadh.
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