The death toll continues to rise from devastating flooding in southeastern Pakistan, with authorities saying on September 30 that 107 children are among the 434 people killed.

  Cuba plans to close some ministries, create new ones and eliminate some of their business activities by year end in reforms spearheaded by President Raul Castro to modernize the communist island's economy, government sources said.

US President Barack Obama has said the death of senior US-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen is a "major blow" to the organisation.  

The Republic of Korea's (RoK) ruling party chief made a one-day trip Friday to a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) industrial complex run by both Koreas as they try to improve ties frayed after violence last year claimed 50 RoK lives.

President Dmitry Medvedev promised to make big personnel changes in the Russians government if he becomes prime minister in a planned role reversal with Vladimir Putin after a March 2012 presidential vote.

The Syrian foreign ministry strongly condemned Thursday recent US statements voicing support for "armed terrorist" groups' violent acts against the Syrian army and said these statements "clearly demonstrate the US involvement in encouraging armed groups to practice violence against the Syrian army."

The Palestinians still lack one more vote in the United Nations Security Council so their application for statehood can be admitted, the Palestinian minister of foreign affairs said Thursday.

Japan is easing evacuation advisories around the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to reassure tens of thousands of residents who fled that it's safe to return home.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be as "interesting" as the ones awarded to Barack Obama and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on September 29.

European Union (EU) leaders and representatives of the Eastern Partnership countries arrived in Warsaw on September 29 to attend a summit on September 29 and 30.