A powerful typhoon has lashed south-western Japan with heavy rain and strong winds, leaving one person dead and at least 34 others injured, paralysing traffic and cutting power to thousands of homes.

The death toll from a fire in a Turkish copper mine has now risen to 13 as more bodies have been discovered.

A fire engulfed a Turkish copper mine today, killing eight workers and leaving more than a dozen trapped in smoke-clogged shafts after the flames were extinguished.

Twenty-five workers are believed to be trapped after a fire broke out inside a tunnel at a copper mine in north-western Turkey. Five other injured miners were rescued.