Heavy rains and flooding in Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province has killed some 226 people over the past month, the National Disaster Management Authority said on September 13.

A passenger train has hit a stationary train in southern India, killing at least seven people, police say.

A Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in preparation for the 19th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in the Indonesian northern province of Sumatra on September 13.

In preparation for co-hosting next summer's Euro 2012 football championship, Poland has been transforming itself.

The flood situation in northern and eastern India remained grim with river rising and overflowing despite less rain recently in the monsoon season, reported the Times of India on September 13.

One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in France.

The UN General Assembly concluded its 65th session on September 12, with its outgoing president reporting progress on a number of development-related issues.

President Barack Obama sent his jobs bill to Congress on September 12 and proposed paying for it by eliminating US$467 billion in tax breaks for richer Americans and companies, meeting immediate resistance from Republicans.

At least 75 people have died after a petrol pipeline explosion and fire in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

A total of 240 bodies of the victims in the ferry accident in Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous republic of Tanzania, have so far been retrieved, said local TV on the morning of September 12.