An Australian man has been charged with murdering two women following the nation's longest police investigation.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday (Dec 19) that it retains "full confidence" in Ms Christine Lagarde's ability to continue to lead the organization, despite her conviction for negligence in a French court.
South Korea's opposition parties filed an impeachment motion against scandal-hit President Park Geun Hye on Saturday (Dec 3) as a fresh weekly protest was expected to draw a million protesters, organisers said.
Some two million people are expected to join nationwide protests in South Korea to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, organisers say.
South Korean President Park Geun Hye's approval rating fell to 4 per cent amid a deepening political crisis, marking an all-time low for any democratically elected leader in the country, according to a Gallup Korea poll released on Friday (Nov 25).
“Poetic justice is what comes to mind,” Mr. Park, the former police officer who investigated Ms. Choi’s family in 2014, recently told reporters.
Actor Brad Pitt is seeking joint custody of his six children in his split from Angelina Jolie, court filings show.
South Korean prosecutors on Saturday (Oct 29) raided the presidential Blue House, as well as the homes and offices of senior advisers to President Park Geun Hye, as she struggled with a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving a close family friend.
South Koreans have been riveted for weeks by a scandal involving the president and a shadowy adviser accused of being a "shaman fortune-teller" by opposition politicians.
South Korean President Park Geun Hye was forced into a public apology on Tuesday (Oct 25) for the leak of official documents to a family associate involved in a growing corruption scandal.
President Park Geun-hye proposed revising the Constitution on Monday, calling South Korea’s single-term restriction on presidents outdated. Her initiative is the first serious attempt to rewrite the country’s Constitution since it was last amended in 1987 to end decades of military dictatorship.
When Mr Amit Shah, the president of Mr Narendra Modi's ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: "What is behenji thinking?"
The reality TV star Rob Kardashian had a family matter to discuss, so naturally, he turned to Twitter. “Didn’t invite the Mother of my child to a baby shower you all were trying to throw for me!!?” he tweeted late last month, reigniting the feud between the Kardashian-Jenner clan and his model fiancée, Blac Chyna. “You all must have lost your damn minds.” In retaliation for the slight, he tweeted out his little sister Kylie Jenner’s phone number.
Ms Renho, a Taiwanese-Japanese mother of two, has been chosen to lead Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party (DP), in internal elections.
Plans to move Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market - the world's largest - were put on ice on Wednesday (Aug 31) over fears about toxic contamination at the new facility, as the cost of the move soars.
Suspended Brazil President Dilma Roussef denied on Monday (Aug 29) that she had committed an impeachable crime, as she defended herself before senators preparing to vote on removing her from office.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to express her desire to enhance trade and strategic ties, her nation's new Asia envoy said.
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