A ceremony was held here Tuesday to kick off a string of territory-wide activities in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family ( IYF).
The White House was locked down temporarily Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle followed a motorcade into a secure area, according to local media reports.
A signal failure was the cause of a subway collision in South Korea, indicating the accident came from human errors, the Seoul government office said Saturday.
An exhibition on the importance of architecture in Renaissance painting opened Wednesday at the National Gallery (NG) in London.
The New Zealand air force P- 3K2 Orion aircraft involved in the international search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will return to New Zealand Thursday, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said Wednesday.
A high school in the U.S. state of Texas was placed on lockdown Tuesday after a student received a text message alleging someone carried a weapon on campus, local media reported.
A young boy has been arrested in connection with a stabbing case Monday, killing a 61-year-old teacher at a school in Leeds, local authorities said.
Australian government on Monday said it has no information linking Kenya to last week's seizure of heroin with a street value of 290 million U.S. dollars.
New Zealand scientists claim a breakthrough discovery could spell the end of "epidemic levels" of cocaine addiction in North America and parts of Europe.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday accused Russia of inaction in helping to ease the tense situation in eastern Ukraine, warning that the United States is ready to impose additional sanctions in response.
Armenians held in the capital city of Yerevan on Thursday a high-profile ceremony to mark the 99th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.
A pair of U.S. astronauts successfully replaced a failed backup computer on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday during a short spacewalk, U.S. space agency NASA said.
On July 5, 2009, rock-flinging and knife-wielding thugs looted shops, torched vehicles, killed nearly 200 people and injured another 1,700 in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Internet access in the region was cut off in the wake of the riot to prevent violent crimes from happening again.
The relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard a capsized South Korean ferry were battered on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled out more bodies from the ill-fated ship.
Indonesia's anti-graft agency declared suspect status against the outgoing chief of Indonesian State Auditing Agency (BPK) Hadi Poernomo shortly after he retired from his post for his involvement in graft case that cost the state some 375 billion rupiah (about 32.4 million U.S. dollars).
Fears that the South Korean ferry sinking accident could become one of the country's worst maritime disasters in two decades have been rising as rescue operations are protracted.
Death toll in the South Korean ferry sinking accident surged on Tuesday afternoon to 108 as divers were intensively searching inside the submerged hull.
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