A student was killed after a former convict went amok inside an elementary school in Zamboanga City in Southern Philippines on October 22, local media ABS-CBN news reported.

A tourist bus was feared buried and three people were killed in multiple landslides as Typhoon Megi brought torrential rain to Taiwan.

After long protracted debate, French upper house of parliament on October 22 adopted the highly controversial pension reform to raise minimum retirement age from 60 - 62.

Group of 20 finance leaders will pledge on October 23 to commit themselves to pursue market-determined exchange rates and refrain from "competitive devaluation" of their currencies.

An outbreak of severe diarrhea has killed at least 135 people in rural central Haiti and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed a crowded hospital Thursday seeking treatment. Health workers suspected the disease is cholera, but were awaiting tests.

At least 160,000 people were evacuated from southern China Thursday as Typhoon Megi, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in years, bore down, bringing with it the threat of devastation.

Just when Toyota thought its safety problems were over, they flare up all over again.

  France's main unions called on Thursday for two further days of strike action against a planned overhaul of the pension system that has triggered the biggest and most sustained anti-austerity protests in Europe.

France has begun importing electricity as the wave of strikes against pension reforms takes hold of energy supplies.

Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts for decades, with welfare, councils and police budgets all hit.