Good behavior is the reason why Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has ended his one-year social duties for a tax fraud verdict earlier than planned, but experts say this will likely not be enough to allow him running for political office again.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday called the razor-wielding attack on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea earlier in the day a "deserved punishment", the official KCNA news agency reported.
U.S. envoy to South Korea Mark Lippert was attacked by an armed man and injured in downtown Seoul on Thursday morning, local media reported.
The trial began here Wednesday for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen accused of carrying out the Boston marathon bombings in the U.S. state of Massachusetts nearly two years ago.
Mexican authorities on Wednesday arrested the head of the country's northern Los Zetas drug cartel, Omar Trevino Morales.
Twenty members of a Chinese opera troupe were killed and 13 others injured when their bus fell off a cliff in central China's Henan Province late on Monday night as they were on their way to stage a performance.
Sri Lankan police arrested a former top female Tamil Tiger leader who headed a naval unit of the rebels, the police said on Tuesday.
Australia's treasurer Joe Hockey has risked severe backlash from Chinese investors by ordering one of the country's wealthiest men, Hui Ka Yan, to sell a 30.4 million U.S. dollar property in Sydney.
Australia's treasurer Joe Hockey has risked severe backlash from Chinese investors by ordering one of the country's wealthiest men, Hui Ka Yan, to sell a 30.4 million U.S. dollar property in Sydney.
Mexican police on Friday captured one of the country's most wanted drug lords Servando "La Tuta" Gomez Martinez, head of the feared Knights Templar drug cartel.
Russian Investigative Committee offered a reward of about 50,000 U.S. dollars for valuable information on the recent murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered Sunday to redraft an electoral law article which was ruled unconstitutional within one month, state-run Nile TV reported.
The infamously black-clad English-speaking militant, aka "Jihadi John," who has played a vital role in the extremist group Islamic State's propaganda machine and appeared in beheading videos, was identified as a middle-class Briton born in Kuwait, according to U.S. media reports.
Four people were killed and one was injured in a South Korean air-rifle shooting rampage in Hwaseong, Gyeonggy Province, Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.
A convicted serial killer on Thursday filed an appeal after a court in north China sentenced him to death for multiple crimes, including the murder and rape of a woman in 1996.
Former prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, is still in the intensive care unit (ICU) for severe pneumonia, the Prime Minister's Office said on Thursday.
HSBC Holdings plc's two top bosses Wednesday apologized for its Swiss unit's "unacceptable" practice on dodging tax for its clients.
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