With the Thanksgiving holiday over, lawmakers are finding there way back to Washington. On the minds of the U.S. Congress is the coming up with a solution to avoid the much talked about "fiscal cliff."
The death toll of people who fell victim to the toxic cough syrup in Lahore City in Pakistan has risen to 16 from the initial report of 13 earlier.
Firefighters in Bangladesh fought a large blaze for hours at a factory outside the capital on Saturday night.
More than 100 vehicles piled up on Interstate 10 in Texas in heavy Thanksgiving Day traffic and extremely thick fog. The Thursday morning mass accident occured about 80 miles east of Houston.