Rescuers found three more bodies after a coal and gas outburst hit a coal mine on October 4 in southwest China's Guizhou Province, bringing the death toll of the accident to 16, authorities said.  

Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on October 4, killing more than 70 people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.  

At least 13 people were shot dead by gunmen in a suspected sectarian attack on a passenger bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on October 4, the second such attack in just over two weeks.

A total of eight fighters of Libya' s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) were killed and another 39 were wounded in Sirte on October 3, as battles went on in the hometown of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi, a source close to NTC's front line members said.

Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed to keep up their fight on October 2 despite the arrests of more than 700 people the previous day for blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge in an unauthorized protest.

Eurozone finance ministers have delayed a decision on giving Greece the next instalment of bailout cash.

A total of 17 people were killed in separate attacks in Iraq on October 3, including a hostage-taking attack at a police station in the country's western province of Anbar, the police said.

Libya's interim prime minister said he would leave his post once Moammar Gadhafi's hometown is captured as the National Transitional Council reappointed most of its top figures on October 3.

A Soyuz-2.1B rocket carried a Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit early October 3 after a two-day delay caused by high winds, a Russian Space Forces spokesman said.

Business confidence in major Japanese manufacturers has improved as they push to recover from disaster, the central bank said Monday.