The United Nations says the world's population has reached the 7 billion mark.

An unseasonable snowstorm has hit the US East Coast, with some areas of Massachusetts seeing more than 27in (68cm) of snow.

Afghan officials say a suicide car bomb blast has killed four people near the offices of a non-government organization in the southern city of Kandahar.

The death toll from Turkey's deadly earthquake rose to 601 on October 30, while officials said the search for survivors stopped in the disaster-struck eastern province of Van province and they would then focus on removing the wreckage and helping disaster victims left homeless.

Nato's mission over Libya is due to formally come to an end at one minute to midnight Libyan time on October 31.  

The next session in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been postponed until late December.

Spain and Portugal said on October 29 the euro zone's debt crisis is a global problem, appealing to the United States and other G20 powers for assistance in containing the fallout.

Western powers risk causing an ‘earthquake’ across the Middle East if they intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said, after protesters called for foreign protection from a crackdown that has claimed the lives of 3,000 people.

At least 75 people, including 60 rebels, were killed on October 29 in the Unity state of South Sudan when the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) repelled an attack by a rebel militia, an official said.

A blast at a coal mine in southern China has killed 28 people, state news agency Xinhua said Sunday, in the latest disaster to hit the accident-prone industry.