A blaze engulfed a 99-year-old building in Tsinghua University, one of China's leading seats of education in Beijing, early November 13 with no casualties reported.

Eleven people were murdered on November 12 in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported.

A suicide car bomb blast targeting foreign troop's convoy in Afghan capital Kabul on November 12 left the attacker dead and injured an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier, police chief of Kabul said.

Medical workers in Haiti on November 12 called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak "alarming" as the earthquake-devastated nation's already strained health system overflowed with the sick.

The G20 leaders agree to strengthen global financial safety nets and financial sector reform, according to the joint communique issued on November 12 after the Seoul Summit.

The Asian Games officially opened with a glitzy gala ceremony on November 12, culminating years of planning for a massive event that is set to reinforce China's regional sporting dominance.

American and the Republic of Korea negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new trade pact during President Barack Obama's visit to Seoul, creating new delays and obstacles for an accord that the White House has said it could translate to an additional US$10 billion in US exports and generate 70,000 American jobs.

An early-morning fire tore through a nursing home in the Republic of Korea, killing ten people and injuring another seventeen, according to police.

At least 15 people died and more than 100 were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police facility in the Pakistani city of Karachi, local police said on November 11.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is contemplating a solution that will enable the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians, local media reported on November 11.