Six prisoners escaped from a jail in southwestern Pakistani town of Turbat after gunmen disguised as visitors killed two police guards and injured four others on Wednesday, local media reported.

Six prisoners escaped from a jail in southwestern Pakistani town of Turbat after gunmen disguised as visitors killed two police guards and injured four others on Wednesday, local media reported.

The European Commission (EC) has allocated 4 million euro in emergency humanitarian aid for victims of floods in India and Bangladesh, an EC announcement said.

The leader of Hezbollah has accused Lebanese Parliament's majority of having planned for a larger UN peacekeeping force in the south for a long time, adding that Israel's summer offensive helped achieve this goal, the Daily Star reported on Wednesday.

An international conference on climate change will begin in Nairobi next Monday and will last until Nov. 17.

The Asian bond market has come some way since the 1997 financial crisis and is in the midst of an exciting phase of development, a Singaporean financier said here on Wednesday.

Amnesty International bestowed its most prestigious honor -- the Ambassador of Conscience Award 2006 -- on former South African president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

A suicide bombing injured two ISAF soldiers in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an officer of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

Iran will cut its crude production by 176,000 barrels per day as from Wednesday in line with a recent decision made by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran will cut its crude production by 176,000 barrels per day as from Wednesday in line with a recent decision made by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the official IRNA news agency reported.