UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly is expected to decide late Thursday whether to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority at the world body from an entity to a non-member state.
Two days after car bombs went off near a Shi'ite procession in Baghdad, killing 12 people, two back-to-back bombs exploded in two other Shi'ite cities according to Iraqi officials.
An independent panel probing Afghanistan's failed Kabul Bank says a few individuals acted with "reckless disregard" in defrauding the bank, while a lack of oversight and enforcement contributed to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets in Bangladesh throwing rocks in protest over the deaths of 110 people in a garment factory there earlier this week. Police fired tear gas and battered protesters with batons to no avail.