A suicide bomber dressed as a paramilitary soldier attacked an office of the U.N. World Food Programme.
About 2.5 million people crammed into relief shelters after floods tore down their homes in southern India.
Local and international rescue teams have arrived in Padang to help the earthquake victims.
U.S. diplomat fired in Afghanistan said UN ignored massive fraud in the August election and also told him to keep quiet.
Former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, has been found dead at his house in Tokyo.
Two suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed 12 militants in missile strikes Pakistan's Waziristan region.
General Thein Sein, head of Burma's military junta, complained from economic sanctions in his speech at the U.N.
Rescuers have retrieved 40 bodies from the rubble of an industrial chimney that collapsed in central India.
Detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will support U.S. plans to engage in dialogue with Myanmar's rulers.
Nine North Koreans entered Denmark's embassy in Hanoi on Thursday, seeking political asylum, food and freedom.