An elderly couple has been taken to hospital after the car they were in fell into a sinkhole in South Korea on Thursday, local media reports have said.
It is "inevitable that things will go wrong" when prisoners are freed early to try to alleviate prison overcrowding, the Chief Inspector of Probation has said.
At least three people have been killed after a typhoon hit southern Japan on Thursday morning, sparking fears of flooding, landslides and extensive damage to buildings.
The government will not defend the legal challenges brought against plans to develop the UK's largest untapped oil and gas field and a second North Sea site.