Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak's trial on charges of corruption and ordering police to kill anti-government protesters will open Wednesday at a Cairo convention hall, Egypt's justice minister announced Thursday.

Serious flaws in the signalling system caused a fatal collision on China's high-speed rail network, officials say.

At least 32 people have been killed in landslides in the Republic of Korea (RoK), as heavy rain deluged homes and caused chaos across northern areas of the country.

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on July 27 that an independent commission would be set up to review deadly twin attacks on July 22 that killed 76 people, while pledging that his country will confront the tragedy with more openness and democracy.

The chief of Libya's Transitional National Council (TNC) said that the deadline for embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to stay in the country, after relinquishing his hold on power, has expired, Al-Jazeera TV reported on July 27.

Ethnic Serbs have attacked and set fire to a security post on Kosovo's northern border with Serbia.

The mayor of the volatile Afghan city of Kandahar, Ghulam Haidar Hameedi, has been killed in a suicide attack, officials say.

A Republican plan to cut the US deficit faced delay and stiff opposition on July 27, piling anxiety onto investors and ordinary Americans hoping for a late compromise to avoid a crippling debt default.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on July 26 told visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano that he wants to continue cooperating with the agency to resolve the ongoing crisis at the disaster-hit Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.

A landslide caused by torrential rain crashed into a South Korean mountain resort east of Seoul early on Wednesday, destroying four buildings, including two small hotels, and killing at least 10 people, officials said.