A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan’s capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board. The Airblue jet’s crash was the deadliest ever in Pakistan, and just the latest tragedy to jolt a country that has suffered numerous deaths in recent years due to Al Qaeda and Taliban attacks. At least two US citizens were on the plane, which carried mostly Pakistanis.

Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China on Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than a decade.

Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.

The Afghan government has said that 52 civilians, including women and children, died when a NATO rocket struck a village in southern Afghanistan last week, a report disputed by the international coalition.

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has expelled a provincial governor from its ranks for soliciting prostitutes.

A boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, four months after it set out from San Francisco on a journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.

A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor.

Twenty six people were killed when a speeding bus crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the police said.

A UN-backed war crimes tribunal today sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer to 35 years in prison - the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia’s people.

Most shops, businesses and schools were closed and streets were deserted in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Monday as separatists opposed to Indian rule called for five days of strikes and demonstrations.