Bangkok braced for rising waters encroaching on the city on Sunday as the death toll from two weeks of nationwide flooding rose to 38, emergency officials said.

Rescuers have found 15 bodies after a ferry sank in waters off eastern Indonesia on Friday and they are searching for seven missing people on Monday.

A multinational medical response has slowed deaths in a Haitian cholera epidemic that has killed more than 250 people so far, but the outbreak is likely to widen, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday.

Japan's exports in September grew at their slowest pace this year, hit by a strong yen and cooling foreign demand amid concern over the health of the global economy, the government said.

Chinese police on Sunday broke up protests against Japan in the northwestern city of Lanzhou over a territorial dispute that has stoked tensions between Asia's two biggest economies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told government ministers that Israel expects the "Palestinians to fulfill their commitment to hold the direct talks," restarted on Sept. 2 after an 18-month break.

A fast-moving cholera outbreak in Haiti has claimed at least 208 lives on October 23, according to a UN spokeswoman.

Finance ministers from the G20 leading economies have agreed reforms of the International Monetary Fund, giving major developing nations more of a say.

Hundreds of thousands of residents have been evacuated as Megi, the 13th typhoon to hit China this year, made landfall in Zhangzhou City in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian at 12:55 p.m. on October 23, authorities said.

At least three people were killed and another 22 injured on October 22 when a roadside explosion went off outside a mosque in Peshawar, a city in northwest Pakistan.