Five people were killed in a plane crash near Pisa airport in northwestern Italy, the country's air force said on Monday.
Samak Sundaravej, the 25th prime minister of Thailand who had been disqualified from office in 2008 because of hosting a cooking show, died of liver cancer Tuesday morning in a Bangkok hospital, Thai media reported.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew into the Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Sunday afternoon, starting a high-profile visit to the United States.
US President Barack Obama is probably weighing three options for his new Afghanistan strategy, analysts at the New York Times said.
China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin met with the president of Peru's Congress, Luis Alva, in Lima on Monday to discuss bilateral ties.
The 12th China-EU summit is to be held on Nov. 30 in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province, according to an agreement reached by the two sides, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced in Bejing on Monday.