At least four people were killed and four others injured in a U.S. drone strike launched early Wednesday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local state-run media PTV.
One person died and 270,000 others were affected by a new round of rain in central China's Hunan Province, authorities said Wednesday. Downpours have also swept Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting another all-time intraday high and closing high for a second day, boosted by an improving U.S. hiring market.
Curfew has been imposed in one of Thailand's violence-plagued southern-most provinces after an attack at a Thai marine base which resulted in the death of 16 militants Wednesday morning.
The death toll in Australia's Queensland flood has risen to six after another body was found in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, on Wednesday, local media reported.
Violence intensified on Wednesday across war-torn Syria with reports of shelling in several areas and military showdown at a military airport in the north, as the United Nations put the death toll of the 22-month conflict at more than 60,000 people.
China has expressed regret over the rocket launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Wednesday.
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