North Korea issued a threat to its southern counterpart on Tuesday. It issued this newest in a seemingly unending stream of threats as a result of yesterday's rally in South Korea where images of North Korea's leaders were burned in effigy.
A huge earthquake shook a remote region of Iran near the Pakistan border today. It is said that it is one of the most powerful to ever strike Iran in the past forty years.
Somali authorities say an hours-long militant assault on the main court complex in the country's capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 22 people Sunday.
One country has taken heed to North Korea's warnings to evacuate their nationals from South Korea today. It is reported Taiwan has issued a a travel alert to its citizens advising them to delay any travel plans to the Korean Peninsula because of the intensified situation there.