Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday by taking to the air for a tandem skydiving jump.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday reshuffled her cabinet to regain public confidence lost after the ferry sinking disaster.
China's supreme court on Thursday annulled the death penalty for two people convicted of forcing into prostitution the daughter of a social campaigner.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday defended the release of five Taliban detainees in exchange for the only American soldier held captive in Afghanistan.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday in absentia prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to 15 years in jail on charges of protesting without state permission, state-run Ahram website reported.
A male body without legs was found stuffed in a luggage bag along a busy road on Wednesday evening.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday replaced four senior secretaries to her as part of efforts to regain public confidence lost after the ferry sinking disaster.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that he was meeting with King Norodom Sihamoni and then playing golf as rumors that he suffered a severe stroke had been spread on social media.
A student was killed by a lone shooter at a high school near Portland, Oregon, Tuesday morning, local police said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for greater national effort against gun violence just hours after a latest school shooting happening in the U.S. State of Oregon Tuesday left two dead, including one innocent student.
The New Zealand government on Tuesday welcomed an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report that said the country's annual economic growth is expected to peak at 3. 5 percent next year and to remain at least 2.5 percent in the foreseeable future.
Two former environment officials in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were jailed on Monday for dereliction of duty in a river pollution case that happened last year.
A black-rind Densuke watermelon, grown only in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, was sold for 350,000 yen (about 3,418.9 U.S. dollars) on Tuesday in the first auction of the fruit at produce markets in Asahikawa and Sapporo in Hokkaido.
The fire at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing Monday had reignited hours after it was put out. But no casualties have been reported so far.
A Singapore Airlines flight was delayed on Monday by a white powdery substance found on board before takeoff, the company said.
Political circles of southern China's Guangdong Province are being redrawn as some 1,000 officials either accept demotion or bring their families back from overseas.
U.S. comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured in a fatal six-vehicle accident in the State of New Jersey early Saturday morning.
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