U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that West Africa is still "nowhere near out of the woods" in its fight against Ebola.
The trilateral talks on Iran's nuclear programs in Muscat, capital of Oman, were "tough, direct and serious," said a U.S. State Department spokesperson Monday.
A year after super-typhoon Yolanda, internationally known as Haiyan, hit the central Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, life in the worst-hit areas, including Tacloban City, is almost back to normal.
Greece took a symbolic first step in its return to international capital markets on Wednesday formally announcing its intention to issue a five-year bond "shortly" for first time since the start of the debt crisis which led the country at the brink of default four years ago and into the EU/International Monetary Fund mechanism.
At least nine people, most of them firefighters, were killed and another seven injured on Wednesday while extinguishing a warehouse fire in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, local authorities said.
Algerian diplomats kidnapped in northern Mali last year are still "alive", Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Monday in Algiers.
Despite uncertainties brought about by the U.S. threat of a military strike against Syria and a large tapering of U.S. bond purchase program, analysts believed that stocks are still the preferred areas for investment by international fund managers.
The death toll has risen to six with one still missing so far in flash flood triggered by heavy rain and risen rivers in some townships in southeast Myanmar's Kayin state since July 27, said a latest release of the government's Information Team published Tuesday.
Authorities are gravely concerned about toxic gases released following Wednesday's huge fertilizer factory blast here, which is believed to have killed dozens and injured more than 170.
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