The death toll from a Pacific tropical storm has risen to 87 in Vietnam today, even as authorities speed up rescue and relief operations.

Iran's state news agency says an earthquake has injured at least 700 people in the country's south.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's son has won a post on the board of the organization that runs France's most important business district after cries of favoritism forced him to withdraw his bid for the top

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

Police say a suicide bomber carried out the attack on the World Food Program offices in the Pakistani capital.

China is celebrating its rise to world power under Communist rule.

Twenty-three people are dead in central Vietnam from Typhoon Ketsana.