Desperation erupted into violence Tuesday in flood-ravaged Pakistan, as survivors who have yet to receive aid scrambled to put food in their empty bellies.

At least 48 people were killed and scores were wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest in central Baghdad as men were queuing up outside an Iraqi army recruitment center, the Interior Ministry said.

ASEAN welcomes Myanmar’s decision to hold the General Election on November 7, 2010, according to a statement issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam – ASEAN Chair – in Hanoi on August 17.

A suicide bomber has killed two policemen and injured three others in an attack targeting a police checkpoint in North Ossetia, Russia's North Ossetian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Maria Gatsoyeva said on August 17.

A Colombian passenger plane crashed and broke up as it came into land on an island in the Caribbean on August 16, injuring at least 119 people, officials have said.

Up to 3.5 million children are at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan following the country's floods, Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said

Iran will start building a new uranium enrichment plant early next year, the country's top nuclear official said on August 16.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on August 16 that halting settlement and defining a reference for peace are the introduction for launching the direct peace negotiations with Israel.

Flags lowered to half-staff on August 15 across China and at the nation's embassies and consulates around the world to mourn the victims of deadly mudslides in northwestern Gansu provice.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described as "heart-wrenching" the destruction he witnessed on a visit to flood-devastated Pakistan on August 15.