A train crash near the Indonesian town of Pemalang in Central Java province has killed at least 28 people, officials say.

Rescuers in Chile expect to reach the 33 trapped miners as early as mid-October -- sooner than previously expected.

Peru and Colombia have reopened their borders with Ecuador, a day after President Rafael Correa accused police and the opposition of a coup attempt.

A rain-soaked hillside crumbled and crushed an elderly couple in their home Thursday, and rescuers found more bodies buried by earlier landslides, raising the death toll from a series of slides in southern Mexico to at least 32.

Renegade police attacked Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa in anti-austerity protests on Thursday and surrounded the hospital where he was treated as he accused his opponents of trying to topple him in a coup.

For 150 years, Hindus and Muslims both claimed a site that is sacred to their religions, which triggered some of the worst rioting in India's history. On Thursday, a court came up with a compromise: Split it.

Pakistan shut the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan on Thursday, accusing alliance helicopters of killing three Pakistani soldiers in a fourth cross-border attack this week.

Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran on Thursday to protest over what it called U.S. sanctions imposed on eight Iranian officials who Washington says participated in human rights abuses, media reported.

Two quakes with magnitudes of 5.2 and 5.0 jolted eastern portions of Indonesia on September 30, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency has reported.

The Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are holding their first military talks in almost two years in a bid to ease tensions heightened by the sinking of a warship.