Voting started Wednesday in Madagascar where nearly 10 million are casting their ballots to elect a new president that they hope will lead this Indian Ocean island nation out of chronic poverty and corruption.

A monument to the late President Lech Kaczynski has been installed in a central Warsaw square ahead of its unveiling as part of celebrations marking Poland’s 100 years of independence.

Facebook says it blocked more accounts during the U.S. midterm elections after shutting down 115 suspected of connections to foreign efforts to interfere in the vote.

Thailand’s Supreme Court has restored a 37-year prison term given to a gunman convicted of shooting four people during 2014 political violence.

A Japanese medical university that has acknowledged systematically discriminating against female applicants has announced plans to accept more than 60 who had been unfairly rejected in the past two years.

China’s foreign currency reserves declined in October, suggesting Beijing might be intervening in market to keep its yuan’s politically sensitive exchange rate from falling to far against the dollar.

The death toll has risen to five in the collapse of two dilapidated apartment buildings in the southern French city of Marseille, with the pre-dawn discovery of a man’s body.

Boeing Co. says it has issued a safety bulletin that reiterates guidelines on how pilots should respond to erroneous data from an 'angle of attack' sensor following last week’s crash of a Boeing plane in Indonesia that killed 189 people.

A Nevada brothel owner and reality TV star who died last month after fashioning himself as a Donald Trump-style Republican candidate has won a heavily GOP state legislative district.

A lawyer says Russian tycoon Dimitri Rybolovlev, the owner of Monaco’s soccer club, has been detained in the principality in an investigation into suspected corruption and other allegations.