European Union leaders met in a crunch summit on October 26 to find a lasting solution to the spreading eurozone debt crisis.

The head of Libya's transitional authorities has called for NATO to extend its mission in Libya until the end of the year.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same grisly end as his father, said Libyan officials.

NATO is to formally decide on October 26 whether to end its mission over Libya now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and buried and the country's new leaders have declared the nation ‘liberated’.

At least five people, including three Iraqi soldiers, died and another 22 wounded when two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on October 26, according to hospital and police sources.

At least 10 Afghan civilians were killed and 35 wounded on a road near a major US base after a small bomb punctured a hole in the side of a fuel tanker that was later engulfed by a large blaze, eyewitnesses and officials said on October 26.

Bangkok residents are bracing for rising flood waters that the Thai prime minister has said could flood low-lying areas in the coming days.

The US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have failed to reach a deal on resuming international negotiations on the DPRK’s nuclear program, after two days of talks in Switzerland.

Official results have yet to be published, but preliminary returns appear to show that the once-banned moderate Islamist party Ennahda has won Tunisia's historic elections, according to several political parties and Tunisian media outlets.

Bangkok's second airport has suspended all flights after floodwaters breached its northern perimeter.