A total of 135 people were killed and nearly 700 others were injured in traffic accidents across Turkey over the nine-day Muslim Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram) celebration, Turkish media reported on November 21.

Twenty-eight miners were trapped in a colliery flood in southwest China's Sichuan Province on November 21, the local safety watchdog said.

A US passenger jet bound for Moscow has returned safely to a New York airport after reports its wing had caught fire on November 21.

The Palestinian Authority will not return to peace talks with Israel unless there is a freeze on settlement building that includes East Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on November 21.

A special US envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is expected to arrive in Seoul late November 21 to discuss DPRK issues with South Korean officials.

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Taiwan's Hualien at 8:31PM. Beijing Time November 21, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.

NATO agreed on Saturday to hand control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 and said the NATO-led force could halt combat operations by the same date if security conditions were good enough.

Madagascan forces quelled a three-day mutiny Saturday when they stormed an army base and arrested dissident soldiers who had declared a coup on the troubled Indian Ocean island.

The Obama administration is prepared to put into writing some of the commitments that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton orally gave to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Catholic reformers and groups working to combat HIV have welcomed remarks by Pope Benedict that that the use of condoms might not always be wrong.