South Korean government on Tuesday confirmed that its trade official kidnapped in Libya was safe up to now, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.
Two parades were held in the fourth largest U.S. city of Houston Monday to honor the life and legacy of the country's late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr..
At least four people were killed and 10 others including three children were injured in a blast that hit Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi on Monday morning, local media reported.
The Israel Air Force (IAF) on Sunday morning struck and killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the northern Gaza Strip who was planning to fire rockets at Israel in the near future, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Sunday warned Gaza militants against further rocket fire, saying Israel will strike anyone who threatens the lives of its civilians.
The presence of avian influenza (AI) virus was confirmed among migratory birds, which were found dead last week in South Korea
A Houston woman, who wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama in which she threatened to kill him, was indicted by a federal grand jury, U.S. media reported Wednesday.
Egyptians started casting their votes Tuesday on the country's new draft constitution, which is widely seen as a milestone during Egypt's political transition after Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was ousted last July.
A pilot and a doctor were killed on Tuesday when a medical helicopter with three people on board crashed on its way to the scene of a road traffic accident near Hole in the central Norwegian county of Buskerud.
The former boss of the provincial China Mobile branch of Guangdong Province was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) over serious discipline violations, a provincial discipline body said Wednesday. Xu Long, former boss and general manager of China Mobile Group Guangdong Co., Ltd., has been passed on to judicial authorities, according to the Guangdong CPC discipline inspection commission. Xu accepted bribes from others on several occasions during his time in office at the Guangdong branch, and the amount he received in bribes was huge, it added. Xu became board chairman and general manager of the Guangdong company in 2005. The investigation was officially made public in August of last year.
The suspect who shot to injure two fellow students at a middle school in the U.S. state of New Mexico Tuesday was said to be a 12-year-old male student.
Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve on Tuesday for trafficking seven babies.
Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva congratulated Cristiano Ronaldo on Monday for his "exceptional sporting level" after the Real Madrid forward was honored the best footballer in the world with a Ballon d'Or award in Zurich, Switzerland.
Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to death with a two years' reprieve on Tuesday for trafficking seven babies, a local court said.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died on Saturday at the age of 85, was laid to rest in his ranch in southern Israel on Monday.
A student suspect was taken into custody on Monday after a potentially explosive device was found on a high school campus in the U.S. state of Texas, local media reported.
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