Re-elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday called for national unity and vowed to reinvigorate her country's economy and advance political reform during her second term.
Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam, one of the most high profile leaders of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, has died.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has released detained American Jeffrey Edward Fowle and handed him over to the United States, official news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.
Scores of Rwandan youth Thursday took to the street to protest against a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary titled "Rwanda's Untold Story" which was aired on October 1.
A three-month-old baby was killed and eight other people wounded when a Palestinian rammed a vehicle into a crowd of commuters at a light rail station in east Jerusalem late on Wednesday, police and witness said.
One of the giants of Australian politics, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, died at the age of 98, and current Australian political leaders immediately offered condolences to his family with Prime Minister Tony Abbott describing him as "a giant of his time."
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared Nigeria Ebola free on Monday, after no new cases were confirmed in the past 42 days.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of French oil giant Total was killed here in a plane accident.
An unidentified Ebola patient who was treated at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has been released, the hospital said Monday.
About 12 Shiite Houthi gunmen were killed when suspected al-Qaida suicide attack targeted their military position in southeastern province of al-Bayda on Monday evening, a tribal chief told Xinhua.
A fire at a British power station close to London has affected the station output, operator RWE npower confirmed Monday.
Fifty years on, Du Xueyou still hears the deafening sound of China's first nuclear bomb in a remote northwestern desert on Oct 16, 1964. He was there. He helped create it.
Yan Jinchang is not able to give exact definition for "rule of law" or "rule of man", the 71-year-old farmer feels good about China's improving legal system.
Brazilian health authorities announced Monday a Guinean citizen admitted to a hospital last week with possible Ebola symptoms is free of the disease.
The alleged killing by an American serviceman of Filipino transgender Jeffry Laude has triggered a new wave of anti-American rhetoric in the Philippines and calls for the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
U.S. President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to respond to Ebola "in a much more aggressive way," hours after a second nurse in Texas who tested positive for the disease earlier in the day was found to have taken a flight before she was ill.
Australian writer Richard Flanagan won one of the most important literature prizes, Man Booker Prize, Tuesday evening in London, making his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North the finest English book this year.
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