Florida Keys residents say they feel a strong sense of community and see a fast recovery as restaurants reopen and cleanup crews remove debris caused by the powerful storm that struck the state on September 10.

Britain's Labour government will increase a surcharge on profits earned by banks operating in the country to help offset soaring energy bills, says finance minister John Healey in his budget announcement. The additional corporate tax rate will double to six percent to finance a one-off subsidy to millions of households struggling with higher energy costs, Healey tells parliament. This is Healey's first budget since becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in July.

As toxic haze from Indonesian wildfires chokes Singapore, marathon runners are taking their training indoors, running inside a shopping mall ahead of the city-state's marathon next month.

Every day, Avenai Ranuku drives his boat between Fiji's mainland and his home on Serua Island. From shore, the island looks like a tropical idyll. Up close, however, a concrete seawall stands between the community and encroaching seas that are already swallowing parts of the island. Despite the risks, the residents would rather strengthen the island's defences than abandon their ancestral home.

With the pyramids of Giza as a backdrop, 40 equestrians compete at the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix in Cairo. "It's for me a bit like writing history here for the first, big competition here in Cairo. I'm very happy to be here, and I'm very happy that I have won this big competition," says Belgium's Pieter Devos, who won with his mare Casual DV Z.

Nigerians respond to the news that the country has identified its first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. "It was so shocking when we got the news," says Anthony Ojoghom, adding "I was alarmed". The patient is a diplomat who travelled from Uganda to Nigeria. She is breing treated in hospital.