A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul on October 29 killing 13 NATO troops from the international security force or ISAF (according to ISAF) and at least 4 (four) Afghans.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on October 29 urged an immediate end to violence in Syria, which he said should answer "the calls of the Syrian people for change" with "far-reaching reforms."

The death toll from Israeli air raids on Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip rose to nine Saturday, while a retaliatory rocket fire by Palestinian militants killed one Israeli civilian and wounded at least two others.

At least 30 people, many of them women and children, are feared dead after a foot bridge spanning a river in north-eastern India collapsed.

Twenty one people have died and seven have been injured in a road accident in northwest China's Gansu province on October 29, according to local authorities.

A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul on October 29 killing at least three civilians and a police officer, officials say.

Thailand’s floodwaters have reached Bangkok’s Grand Palace, a historical site that once housed Thai kings, and is now a major tourist attraction.

International prosecutors have had "informal contact" with the son of slain ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

A gunman was wounded and arrested after firing rounds at the US embassy in Sarajevo with an automatic weapon on October 28, police told Bosnian television.

World financial markets soared on October 27 after the European Union approved a plan to cut Greece's debt in half and significantly increase a bailout fund designed to contain the eurozone debt crisis.