Al-Qaida-linked militants are among the suspects in a powerful bomb blast that killed one person and wounded 12 others in the southern Philippines, the military said Wednesday.

Brazil's Air Force says one of its planes crashed in the country's southeast, killing all eight people aboard.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) offered the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) flood relief aid worth 5 billion won ($4.7 million) on Wednesday after latter reported dozens of casualties and thousands made homeless by torrential rain.

Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Javid Ludin said on August 2 that Pakistan can offer help in engaging the Taliban leadership with a view to bringing them over to the peace process.

Nato is sending hundreds of extra troops to Kosovo amid rising tension in the north along its border with Serbia.

Four Ethiopian UN peacekeeping troops have been killed by a landmine in Sudan's disputed region of Abyei.

Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will be held to account by the people he ruled for three decades in a trial starting on August 3.

At least 24 people were killed and dozens were injured by security forces as anti-government protesters took to the streets in various Syrian cities overnight, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on August 2.

Three suicide bombers attacked a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on August 2, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company, a senior police detective said.

The US House of Representatives has passed by 269 votes to 161 a last-gasp deal to avoid a federal debt default.