Italian regions contributed differently to Italy's export recovery in 2014, confirming a clear divide in the economic performance between the north and south of the country, a recent report based on official data showed.
The investigation into the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 reached an unexpected and mysterious turning point on Thursday as an audio recording from the plane's black box revealed that the German co-pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft into the southern French Alps after locking his captain out of the cockpit.
Myanmar government troops have been engaged in fighting with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as wood smuggling was found in Mansi, northernmost Kachin state, over the past three days amid peace talks in Yangon.
New evidence supports the theory that a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, now owned by a Dutch private collector, was stolen from China, a government official said Tuesday.
A village over 500 kilometers from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou that nestles in mountains is attracting visitors in search of a glimpse into the life of late Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew.
The first black box of the crashed Germanwings flight, which has been found by gendarmes at the site of the disaster, is used for recording conversations in the cockpit, local media reported on Tuesday.
Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner said Tuesday that he was "shocked" and "baffled" to learn of Israel's act of spying on the nuclear talks with Iran and sharing the information with some American lawmakers with a view to undermining the diplomacy.
An Airbus 320 plane of German budget airline Germanwings with 150 people on board crashed in southern France on Tuesday while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. No survivors were expected.
A Mexican wrestler died Saturday after receiving a flying kick during a match in Tijuana.
Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore, died at 3:18 am on Monday at the age of 91, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office ( PMO) on Monday.
Former Australian prime minister Malcom Fraser who led the country from November 1975 to March 1983, died at 84, his office announced on Friday.
The new chief of the beleaguered U.S. Secret Service said Thursday that recent reports about a "car crash" at the White House barricade by allegedly drunk senior agents were exaggerated and inaccurate.
Finnish gaming company Rovio's operating profit has dropped dramatically by 73 percent last year, said the company in its financial results for the full year of 2014 published on Thursday.
Wang Jing is haunted by her reflection: the looking glass frames a crooked mouth and numb, motionless cheeks.
A militant leader who allegedly helped mastermind the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya was killed last week in a U.S. airstrike, the Pentagon confirmed in a statement on Wednesday.
The innocent face of a young Afghan girl who sat on the sidewalk of the capital city spoke of the desperation that Afghan children have been subjected to as a result of the cycle of violence in the war-ravaged country.
The third round of Cuba-U.S. talks meant to restore diplomatic relations ended after one day's effort, agreeing to "maintain the communication" toward normalization of ties between the two countries, said a press release from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) Tuesday.
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