ADB said that East Asia's emerging economies will grow 8.8 percent this year before slowing to 7.3 percent in 2011 amid concerns about the global economy.
WikiLeaks has divulged a secret list compiled by Washington of key infrastructure sites around the world that could pose a critical danger to US security.
As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide Sunday that swept over 10 houses near Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, Red Cross relief workers said.
World climate talks in Cancun entered their final stretch beset by fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the December 2009 Copenhagen summit.
An early cold snap in Europe claimed more lives, while a wildcat strike by Spanish air traffic controllers added to the travel chaos caused by snow, ice, and in some countries flooding.
A huge fire killed 40 people when it tore through a forest near Haifa in northern Israel on Thursday, prompting urgent calls for international help to tackle the blaze.