The death toll continues to rise as a result of the devastating earthquake that struck the the Philippines on Tuesday. Officials put the current number at 144 dead with hundreds more injured and scores missing. Authorities there say that the numbers will continue to rise as communications are re-established to remote areas of the archipelago.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria say an international conference to set up a Syrian transitional government must be organized urgently and held as soon as possible.
Abu Anas al Libi, the alleged Al Qaeda member who was captured in Tripoli, Libya just over a week ago by U.S. special operations forces, was transported to New York, according to the United States Attorney's office.
The military forces of North Korea are once again at their highest alert level as Pyongyang warns the United States of "horrible disaster" if the U.S. carries out its planned three-nation exercise off of the Korean peninsula.