The October unemployment rate in the United States edged down 0.1 percentage point, a relatively good news for the US Government, but the job market is still in a struggling picture.

The 8th ASEAN justice ministers’ meeting kicked off in Phnom Penh on November 4 to discuss and decide on a number of legal instruments for ASEAN joint implementation, towards the establishment of an ASEAN Community in 2015.

The Committee of ASEAN Community Statistics System (ACSS) was set up at the annual meeting of ACSS held in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 4.

Leaders of the world's top economies ended a two-day summit in Cannes committed to boosting growth and staunching Europe's spreading financial crisis, though leaving the specifics of how they will do so unclear.

Rain and floods swept through northwestern Italy on November 4, triggering flash floods that killed at least six people.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a parliamentary confidence vote on November 5, avoiding snap elections which would have torpedoed Greece's debt crisis bailout deal and inflamed the euro zone's economic crisis.

The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran on November 3 ahead of next week's release of a keenly awaited UN report that may offer new details about the military side of Iran's nuclear program.

Dozens of miners have been trapped in a coal mine in China after a "rock burst", officials say.

A total of 176 Honduran police officers were arrested on November 3 in a purge against corruption and organised crime, the authorities there say.

Different accounts on deaths emerged on November 3 from Syria's central province of Homs, one of the country's most volatile areas, a day after Syrian authorities pledged to withdraw its forces from protest centers.