 | Five people were killed as Typhoon Nuri slammed into the northern Philippines Wednesday, triggering heavy rain and warnings of possible storm surges, officials said. Philippines |
 | Hundreds of Hindu protesters set fire to a police post on Wednesday in Jammu city in Indian Kashmir, defying a curfew imposed to defuse protests over a land row with the region's Muslims. India |
Two missiles struck a house in Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Wednesday killing six suspected militants, some of them foreigners, a security official said. Pakistan |
 | South Pacific leaders opened their annual summit in Niue on Tuesday with a warning that climate change was causing havoc to island states and that their struggling economies were continuing to falter. Regional News |
 | The beleaguered Philippine peace process was thrown into disarray Wednesday, with the government saying a proposed deal with Muslim rebels must be renegotiated after the guerrillas shot or hacked 37 people to death in a brutal rampage. Philippines |
Hopes of saving a baby whale abandoned by its mother in a bay north of Sydney faded late on Wednesday as the calf continued to try to suckle from a moored yacht. International experts said it had just days to live. Australia |
Scores of angry women have protested against the mayor of their outback Australian town after he said fat and unattractive females often found love and happiness in the remote mining community. Australia |
North Korea Wednesday stepped up its criticism of a major U.S.-South Korean military exercise, saying it could impede progress on an international nuclear disarmament deal. Korea |
 | Shibuya, the dizzying giant street crossing and center for Tokyo's young and hip, often gets foreign tourists lost, but it had a more unusual visitor on Wednesday -- a monkey. Japan |
Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday that it had developed a new way of predicting from a person's DNA their response to medication and risk of developing disease. Japan |
