UN Chief Ban Ki-moon called on rival parties in Ivory Coast on November 2 to accept results from the West African nation's first election since civil war split the cocoa-producing country in half nearly a decade ago.

Brazil's new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor's move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night.

Shanghai is bidding farewell to the World Expo - a six-month event showcasing China's rise in the world.

At least 32 people were wounded, five seriously, in an apparent suicide bombing in the center of Istanbul on Sunday, police said.

At least 18 people are now confirmed dead while 100 others are still missing in a boat tragedy in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal Saturday, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Rescue crews have found 135 missing people after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's coast, triggering a tsunami and leaving hundreds dead, authorities said on October 30.

Shipping containers filled with illegal weapons seized in Lagos, Nigeria, earlier this week came from Iran, a leading global shipping company said on October 30.

Eighty people were killed in clashes with NATO and Afghan forces in Paktika province, a spokesman for the province's governor said on October 30.

Gunmen opened fire on a group of people in a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14, authorities said on October 30.

Aid agencies in Haiti say they fear that suspected new cases of cholera might mean the epidemic is moving closer to the capital Port-au-Prince.