At least one passenger was killed and 45 others were injured when a mini-truck met with an accident in Lalitpur in Nepali capital Kathmandu Valley Wednesday afternoon.

The world's biggest book fair, attended by more than 7,200 exhibitors from 113 countries and regions, opened in Frankfurt on Wednesday.

Three people were killed when a train ploughed through a taxicab on a level-crossing in southeastern Bangladesh Wednesday, local news agency UNB reported.

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted the sea waters near Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at 11:58 a.m. (Hong Kong time) (0358 GMT) Wednesday.

Typhoon Xangsane, which began to strive Vietnam's central region on Sunday, and floods triggered by it have killed 52 local people, left 7 missing and injured 534 others as of Wednesday, the country's central Flood and Storm Prevention Committee reported.

A fifth girl died of injuries in hospital Tuesday after four girls had been killed in a shooting rampage at an Amish school on Monday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Some 3,700 people reported lost friends or relatives in the crowds on Tian'anmen Square during the first three days of the week-long National Day holiday, local police records show.

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Xangsane, locally known as Milenyo, rose to 197 while at least 22 other people remained missing, local media reports said Wednesday.

As China's week-long National Day vacation started from Sunday this year, Beijing's sanitation workers have been kept even busier to sweep the Tian'anmen Square which received nearly three million visitors over the past two days.

Zimbabwe on Tuesday launched the world's first official HIV/AIDS Toolkit, which forms the basis for a global AIDS prevention, treatment and support plan, reported New Ziana Tuesday.