New analysis of radar data on the flight path of MH370 is a credible new lead and will be thoroughly investigated Friday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot confirmed following the update from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
ANA Holdings Inc., Japan's largest airline group by passenger traffic, said Thursday it would buy 70 new aircraft from Boeing and Airbus, which totaled 1,727 billion yen (about 16.5 billion U.S. dollars), the biggest purchase in its history.
Japan's ruling coalition approved a new three-point principle governing the export of weapons submitted by the government on Tuesday.
The White House on Thursday said that search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might be expanding to the Indian Ocean based on new but inconclusive information about the aircraft.
Australia's supermarket giant Coles will open 70 new stores and create 16,000 jobs across the country over the next three years, local media reported on Wednesday.
Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Government is offering tax breaks for businesses that hire workers recently made redundant from companies' mass sackings, local media reported on Tuesday.
A new cabinet in favor of anchoring Ukraine in the West emerged Thursday with a tough mandate to steer the country away from a looming economic collapse and find a way to mend its division.
Egyptian military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will stay as defense minister in the nation's new government, state-run Ahram website said Wednesday, adding five other outgoing ministers also will keep their jobs.
Shares of Chinese automobile maker BYD soared on Wednesday on stock exchanges after its new energy sedans were granted access to the markets of Beijing and Shanghai.
The Italian new government won the vote of confidence in the Senate early Tuesday, after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pledged to work for radical and immediate changes to revive the country's recession-gripped economy.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned the deadly terrorist attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier in the day, calling the bombings "heinous acts."
Hong Kong Disneyland reported Monday for the fourth consecutive year of record revenue, attendance, hotel occupancy and guest spending for the 2013 fiscal year.
Facilities for new nuclear submarines in Russia's Pacific coast will be completed by the end of 2014, the Defense Ministry said Monday.
New Zealand needs to significantly increase its annual intake of immigrants in order to lift overall economic growth, an independent economic think-tank said Monday.
Over 40,000 people fought the freezing temperature and gathered at the center of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, to celebrate the Chinese new year on Thursday evening.
China's upcoming new year festival season may see a new milestone for box office sales, with domestic movies and foreign blockbusters scheduled to hit the screen.
Over 90 percent of Egyptians approved the country's new draft constitution in a referendum, the official MENA news agency reported Thursday, citing preliminary results.
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