A pair of suicide bombings in southwestern Pakistan left 17 people dead and 25 others injured on September 7, police said.

Muammar Gaddafi was last tracked heading for Libya's southern border, the man leading the hunt for the deposed leader said, and French and Niger military sources said scores of vehicles carrying pro-Gaddafi forces had crossed into Niger.

Growing fears of a tip back into global recession are piling pressure on G7 finance chiefs meeting in France on Friday to moderate austerity drives in some rich economies and unleash a new round of monetary stimulus.

Convoys of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists fled across the Sahara into Niger on Tuesday in a move that Libya's former rebels hoped could help lead to the surrender of his last strongholds.

Israel’s forces killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded two civilians during an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, said militants and medical sources.

A gunman opened fire on a group of National Guardsmen having breakfast at a Nevada restaurant, killing three people and wounding eight others before turning the gun on himself.

Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan Tuesday after the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 41, heaping more misery on a nation recovering from the March earthquake and tsunami.

A boy was killed on Tuesday when a 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said.

China will recognize Libya's National Transitional Council as the legitimate government "when conditions are ripe," the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, without saying what those conditions would be.

Libyan forces have massed outside a pro-Gaddafi desert town that has refused to surrender, building a field hospital in preparation for a possible last stand.