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.
A Lao Airlines plane crashed into the Mekong River in southern Laos on Wednesday, in an accident Thai television channels said killed 39 people.
Two US Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft joined in military exercises between the US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces for the first time in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga.
The US Senate prepared for a last ditch effort Wednesday to avoid a historic lapse in the government's borrowing authority, a breach that Obama has said could lead to default and deliver a damaging blow to the global economy.
The Mexican government is demanding a "clear and precise" answer from the United States for allegedly spying on President Enrique Pena Nieto, Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade said Tuesday.
At least four people were killed and three others injured on Tuesday after an explosion at a gas plant in the Industrial Park of Chachapa, a town in central Mexico's Puebla state, local authorities said.
The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital.
Iran on Tuesday laid out a hotly awaited proposal to break the deadlock in talks with world powers over its nuclear program.
US Senate leaders were nearing a deal on Tuesday in talks to reopen the US government and prevent a default on American debt that economists say could tip the global economy back into recession.
Sino-Japanese relations are unlikely to improve anytime soon if Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech to his country's parliament is any indication.
A cargo ship carrying 19 people sank in South Korea's Pohang harbor amid a storm at around 21:30 local time on Tuesday, leaving 9 dead and 2 missing.
A small plane carrying 14 people has been missing in northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 quake that struck central and southern Philippines climbed to 28.
Philippine president orders rescue to quake victims
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