The UN General Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 16 people and wounded 100 others at a market in Vladikavkaz in southern Russia, officials say.

A Florida pastor who called off a Quran burning said late September 9 he would "rethink our position" after a Muslim leader said the minister incorrectly announced that the proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero would be moved as part of a deal.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a foreign policy talk to weigh in on hot button political issues on September 8, slamming a Florida pastor for his "disgraceful" plan to burn the Quran and strongly criticizing George W. Bush's fiscal record.  

Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings on September 8 from a branch of the graft-hit Kabulbank, the country's biggest private financial institution.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has managed to hold onto power after securing the support of independents to form a minority government.

Workers have gone on strike in Britain and France to voice mounting discontent over proposed government austerity measures.

A powerful car bomb in Pakistan killed at least 20 people on September 7 and wounded more than 50 others. 

Two US soldiers have been killed and nine wounded by a gunman dressed in Iraqi army uniform near the town of Tuz Khormato, 210km north of Baghdad, says the US military.

President Barack Obama has called for a new comprehensive infrastructure plan as part of efforts to jump-start the spluttering US economy.