VNĐ Thieves steal six antiques worth billions of VND ($94 thousand) displayed at Hòa Khiêm Palace in Tomb of King Tự Ðức in Huế, Vietnam.
Palestinian Reports indicate that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had high levels of polonium in his body when he died.
Chinese Communist Party A man is arrested for alleged involvement in the Wednesday bombing of the Chinese Communist Party in the city of Taiyuan in northern China.
Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway A 90-car Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway train carrying crude oil derails and explodes in western Alabama.
Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history to make landfall, hits the Visayas in the Philippines, with at least three people dead.
UNESCO UNESCO suspends the voting rights of the United States and Israel after both countries refused to pay their dues as a protest to the membership of the State of Palestine.
Somalia At least 11 people are killed in the Somalian capital Mogadishu after a bomb explodes in a carpark.