Saturday
United Nations: Terrorist group al-Qaeda still remains a potent and dangerous force despite considerable disruption in its leadership, India's Permanent Representative to the UN and Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Hardeep Singh Puri says.
Islamabad: Sixteen people were killed and over 40 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the office of a pro-government militia in the restive Darra Adam Khel region of northwest Pakistan.
Tokyo: The Reserve Bank and the government must work in tandem to bring down interest rates, Finance Minister P Chidambaram says, while emphasising that high rates hurt everyone.
Sunday
Abuja: At least 20 people were killed as gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers coming out of a mosque in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state.
Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested three brothers of a senior Taliban commander from Swat during a raid for alleged links to the near-fatal attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who is still on ventilator in hospital and making "slow and steady" progress.
Monday
Bangkok: India says, the fiscal austerity measures adopted by Europe should not affect growth as a slowdown could lead to repercussions affecting economies around the world.
Stockholm: US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Economics Prize for research on how to match different agents as well as possible, the Nobel jury says.
Tuesday
New York: In an abrupt exit, Citigroup's India-born CEO Vikram Pandit resigned after nearly a five-year tenure during which he steered US's third-biggest bank through the difficult years after the 2008 financial crisis.
Melbourne: Defending her move to start talks on supplying uranium to India, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said the ruling Labor's previous stance against the sale was becoming an obstacle in ties, but made it clear that a safeguard agreement is likely to take one or two years.
Wednesday
Hempstead (New York): A combative Barack Obama hit back at Mitt Romney, retrieving lost ground in the second of the three high-stake presidential debates, declaring that his Republican rival's stance on outsourcing will only result in more jobs in India and China.
Colombo: Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, the last leader of the Tamil Tigers who is wanted in India in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has been freed from Sri Lankan military custody.
Thursday
Dhaka: A retired Indian Colonel, who rescued Premier Sheikh Hasina and some other members of her family from captivity of Pakistani troops in 1971, is among 61 foreigners set to be honoured by Bangladesh for their outstanding contribution to its Liberation War.
New York: US prosecutors have sought 8 to 10 years in jail for Indian-American former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta for his "shocking" insider trading crimes even as he pleaded to be spared a prison term and offered to perform "rigorous full-time" community service.
Friday
London: Pakistan's teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by Taliban, has managed to stand with help for the first time and is also able to write, doctors treating her at a UK hospital says, while warning that "she is not out of the woods" yet.
Washington: A Bangladeshi man with alleged links to al- Qaeda, arrested in New York on terror charges, was in the US on a student visa to attend a legitimate academic programme, an American official says.
United Nations: Six Indian peacekeepers and a local interpreter, serving with the United Nations mission in strife-torn Congo, were wounded when their patrol was ambushed in what is being termed as a "targetted and deliberate" attack.
