Prosecutors in Tokyo will release Julie Hamp, who resigned as a Toyota executive following her arrest last month for allegedly illegally importing a restricted narcotic painkiller into Japan, Kyodo News said on Tuesday.
New leaked information has confirmed that Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and even her cabinet members had been spied on by the U.S. government, which drew extensive attention of the Brazilian media over the weekend.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returns to the table of negotiations with creditors to clinch a new debt deal and avert a looming default and a possible Grexit with the support of opposition parties, according to an official declaration released on Monday.
A bronze sculpture appeared on the northern end of Linge in the heart of Beijing this weekend, in memory of its namesake, the late general Tong Linge.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that local forces should be the main forces to fight the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) and currently there was no plan for his administration to send more U.S. troops abroad.
No case of infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was reported in South Korea Tuesday for two straight days, with no death being identified for one week, the health ministry said.
Indigenous leaders have lashed out at the Australian government, accusing Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of not listening to suggestions about how to tackle constitutional recognition of the Aboriginals as Australia's first people.
No case of infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was reported in South Korea on Monday, while no death was added for six straight days, the health ministry said.
The president of the UN Security Council said on Thursday Malaysia intends to introduce a draft resolution, touching off an anticipated "months" of debate, on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, which killed all 298 people on board.
An all-clear was given after no evidence was found about the earlier reported shootings at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington D.C., the site of a rampage taking place in September 2013, said authorities Thursday.
At least 12 people were killed, over 100 others injured and at least four people went missing when four compartments of a train fell into a canal while crossing a bridge in Pakistan's city of Gujranwala on Thursday afternoon, local media and officials said.
At least 36 people died and 26 others went missing after a passenger banca capsized in the waters off Ormoc City in central Philippines' Leyte province on Thursday afternoon, said Philippine Coast Guard (PCG).
One more case of infection with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was added in South Korea Thursday, marking the first case in five days, the health ministry said.
Japan has halted all its Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Osaka, after one of the super express trains made an emergency stop south of Tokyo when white smoke was seen billowing out of one of the carriages following a man setting himself alight.
Greece's international creditors do not want a Grexit, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday night, as the country faced the first day with closed banks and capital controls, fueling concern over a looming default and exit from the euro zone.
No new case of infection with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was reported in South Korea for three days in a row, with one more death being added, the health ministry said Tuesday.
New York's second escaped inmate, David Sweat, has been shot and captured close to the Canadian border, local media reports said on Sunday.
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