Portal:Current events/2013 November 12

• Two people are killed and five others injured when a bomb explodes in Bedfordview, South Africa, near the Eastgate shopping mall. (SAPA via News24)

• British composer John Tavener dies at age 69. (BBC)

• U.S. stock exchanges jointly announce a plan to improve the technical functioning of their markets, in the face of recent high-profile glitches such as the trading halt in Nasdaq in August. (Reuters)

• The Philippines faces a health crisis in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan with the official death toll at 1,774 and expected to rise quickly. (CNN)

• Hawaii becomes the 15th state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage. (Washington Post)
• A U.S. District Court judge, Victor Marrero, denies a motion by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, the former CEO of MF Global, to dismiss investor litigation intended to hold him accountable for MF Global's blow-up in October 2011. (Reuters)

• The Senate of Thailand rejects an asylum bill that could have seen the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (BBC)