The European Union's criticism concerning the record level of corruption in Italy has raised awareness as well as concern for the problem that Italian experts see still far from improvement due to legislative and cultural deficiencies.
The Last Post the iconic bugle call still heard in parts of the former British Empire to commemorate the military dead might soon be telling navy divers around the world that they've just failed an exercise in seabed mine training.
Australians protesting the West Australian (WA) government's shark cull saw thousands of people around the country, with the largest event at Sydney's Manly Beach, Saturday in a show of anger against a culling policy seen as both futile and out of touch.
South Korea on Tuesday lodged a strong protest against Japan's revision on teaching manuals for junior and senior high school students, vowing to take stern measures against it.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday accepted the resignation of scandal-hit Agriculture Minister Nunzia De Girolamo, making way for possible replacements in his fragile left-right government.
Xiao Lin went to school to pick up his academic report alone, while most of his schoolmates were accompanied by their parents.
A Chinese hospital official involved in a baby trafficking case has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for dereliction of duty, a court announced on Friday.
Moscow was enraged by foreign intervention in Ukrainian internal affairs, the Kremlin has said.
A bushfire in Perth's City of Swan in Western Australia has been brought under control, the state fire authority said on Friday.
Another rare leopard, one of the world's most endangered species, has been killed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local police said Friday.
A Chinese hospital official involved in a baby trafficking case has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for dereliction of duty, a court announced on Friday.
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar has left behind a huge fortune, including properties, investments, watches and antiques worth millions, in India, the United Arab Emirates and Canada, sources
A Chinese court will announce its verdict on Friday for four former hospital officials accused of serious dereliction of duty in a baby trafficking c
Matteo Renzi, the leader of Italy's center-left Democratic Party (PD), the biggest in the ruling coalition, on Wednesday played down the importance of some dissent within his party and went ahead to outline an agenda of reforms that he was urging the country's coalition government to introduce.
South Korea's financial regulator said Wednesday that it will slap punitive penalties to financial companies for future client data leakage after the incident that personal information of almost all adults in the country was stolen from three credit card issuers.
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar's son -- from her second marriage
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly raised its growth forecast for the world economy to 3.7 percent in 2014, 0.1 percentage point higher than its October projection.
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