Brazilian Olympic sprint hopeful Vanda Gomes faces a two-year ban from competition after a positive doping test.
Lin Senhao, a former university student who killed his roommate with poison, has been reading classic literature to calm himself before his second trial, set to begin at 10 am on Monday, one of his lawyers said.
Ai Yiying, one of the around 200 living survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, shared her memory of the incident with Japanese residents at a testimony meeting Sunday in Osaka, conveying the truth about Nanjing Massacre.
An exhibition which explores the artistic roots of one of the most unusual poets and artists in the English language has opened at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
Authorities at the central and local levels began investigating a pollution case in which an aluminum manufacturer is believed to have caused environmental damage in central China.
China on Thursday observed its inaugural national Constitution Day, marked by educational efforts to help citizens understand the fundamental law of the land.
The Australian Senate has passed sweeping changes to the country's immigration laws, including the re-introduction of the Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Friday.
A university professor who was sacked from his teaching post after being accused of having sex with a female student has resigned from the university, the school confirmed on Wednesday.
Portuguese researchers have claimed that they have developed a new method to diagnose stomach cancer by using 2D images.
Enthusiastic amateurs are using modern tools, such as social networks and digital publishing, to help save endangered cultural sites and forgotten art forms, as Peng Yining report.
A convicted murderer who was enabled to escape and flee to South America earlier this month has been deported from Brazil and is returning home, New Zealand Police said Friday.
Japan's time-honored sex industry still booms today, with its modern-day heart now located in the neon-lit, hedonistic, red-light district of Kabukicho, where despite Japan's Anti-Prostitution Law, everything is for sale, including young girls' hopes and dreams.
In two samples of droppings from wild ducks around Kamerik, in the province of Utrecht, highly pathogenic bird flu of the H5 type was found, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Monday night.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's dwindling popularity among Australian voters is being blamed for the electoral disaster of his Coalition colleagues in Victoria at the weekend.
The 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit ended here Thursday with mixed results highlighting the challenges the bloc faces in its integration process.
Queen Elizabeth II has become the first recipient of the FEI Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of her leading role as supporter of equestrian sport throughout her reign as British monarch, the FEI, the equestrian's world governing body, announced on Thursday.
Japan's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the 2013 Upper House vote was held "in a state of unconstitutionality"due to the disparity in the weight of individual votes across different constituencies.
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