World News Update, what you need to know

60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown is eager to get home as she and the rest of her crew leave Lebanon after being released on bail from a Beirut prison, where they had been held for two weeks after being accused of child kidnapping.

ELSEWHERE:

KABUL - In the wake of a deadly attack in Kabul that has left at least 64 people dead and scores more wounded, Australia's most senior commander in the Middle East says there is no active plan to alter our mission in Afghanistan.

TOKYO - Aftershocks rattled survivors of deadly Japanese earthquakes, nearly a week after the first one struck, as the area braced for heavy rain and the possibility of more landslides.

PEDERNALES - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has shaken Ecuador's already devastated Pacific coast, terrifying residents and hindering rescuers searching for survivors of an even bigger quake at the weekend which killed more than 500 people.

ROME - Up to 500 migrants might have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the UN refugee agency said.

OSLO - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has partly won a court case against the Norwegian state, in which he claimed he was the victim of human rights abuses in prison.

HOUSTON - At least eight people have died and some 1150 homes have been damaged in flooding triggered by torrential downpours in the Houston area this week as more rain fell in the region adding to vast pools of standing water.