The first batch of Chinese aid for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan arrived in central Philippine city of Cebu, a relief goods distribution center, on Monday evening.
US President Barack Obama arrived in Dallas late Wednesday to urge Texas to join his signature health care law.
Swiss scientists found evidence suggesting Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday.
"We were hoping that we'd be in a position to announce a date today; unfortunately we're not," UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
A senior Democratic senator who served as a lead author of Obama's healthcare law criticized the administration on Wednesday for failing to alert lawmakers to problems that led to the program's troubled rollout.
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was freed late Wednesday two days after a court granted him bail in the murder case of the deputy chief of Islamabad's Red Mosque, who was killed in a military raid in 2007, his lawyer said.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood failed in an attempt on Wednesday to overturn a court ruling banning it, the state news agency said, another blow to the debilitated Islamist movement.
Liberal Democrat Bill de Blasio cruised to victory on Tuesday in the race to succeed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, marking the first time a Democrat has captured City Hall in two decades.
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday was acquitted on charges of fraud and breach of trust.
The chief of US forces in the Pacific says he's planning for the possibility that the DPRK has an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit the US although it's unclear if they really do.
The delivery of the Olympic torch into the space will contribute to the unity of nations, US astronaut Richard Mastracchio said Wednesday.
A 5-magnitude quake jolted the bordering area between China and India at 12:16 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Presidential election has kicked off in Tajikistan wednesday morning, with six candidates running for presidency.
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