Germany's parliament has voted by a large majority in favour of supporting a more powerful fund to bail-out troubled Eurozone economies.

The US secretary of state has condemned an attack on US ambassador Robert Ford after he was pelted with eggs by Syrian president supporters in Damascus.

Eight NATO troops have died in Afghanistan over the past two days, seven of them from war-related causes, the International Security Assistance Force said.

A plane carrying 18 people has crashed in a mountainous region of western Indonesia, government officials say.

The White House on September 28 dismissed an Iranian threat to deploy warships near the U.S. coast, and military experts said Iran lacks the naval capability to do so.

Heavy clashes rocked northern neighborhoods of Yemen's capital Sanaa at dawn on September 29, breaking a truce aimed at ending the worst violence since a popular revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began eight months ago.

Philippine authorities said on September 29 that the death toll from Typhoon Nesat had risen to 35, and would likely climb further with dozens of others missing two days after the storm walloped the country.

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Organic World Congress opened on September 28 in the city of Namyangju in the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Asian shares and commodities fell on September 29 on growing worries that Europe's intractable debt problems will plunge the world into a second global financial crisis.

Bank shares have fallen in London after the UK said it would "resist" a financial transaction tax on EU members proposed by the European Commission.