Greek parliament rejected on Wednesday evening a proposal tabled by main opposition Radical Left SYRIZA party for an inquiry into the terms of a controversial agreement regarding the sale of Greece's Skaramangas shipyards three years ago and the subsequent purchase of submarines by the Greek state.
As the final art commission of London Underground's 150th anniversary year, the new edition of the pocket tube map released this month featured colorful flora on its cover.
A military helicopter on Tuesday rescued an operator trapped on a construction crane by a massive fire in the southeast Canadian city of Kingston.
Myanmar and Cambodia have agreed on mutual visa exemption for holders of ordinary passports, state media reported Wednesday.
A 73-year-old woman, who died of respiratory failure on Dec. 6, was later confirmed to have been carrying the H10N8 virus by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a statement issued by the emergency response office of the provincial health department.
U.S. Senate on Monday voted to confirm Jeh Johnson, a former top Pentagon lawyer, to be the secretary of homeland security.
Two more high courts in Japan ruled Monday that July's upper house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" due to voter weight disparities, an issue that has plagued the nation's electoral system.
The Kenyan police on Sunday issued a warrant of arrest against a key suspect who is being sought in connection with the explosion in a minibus which killed at least six people and left 30 others injured in Nairobi on Saturday.
A high-rise building that was ablaze for over 11 hours in downtown Guangzhou no casualties have been reported so far. Some 20 people, including workers inside the building and nearby residents, have been relocated, according to the municipal firefighting department
At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured in separate fog-related accidents in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Monday morning, local Urdu TV channel Geo reported.
The joint team of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Thursday it "concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic."
An elderly Belgian who defiled a 13-year old girl has been jailed for 20 years by a Mombasa court.
Jang Song-Thaek, deposed senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been executed after the Special Military Tribunal found him guilty of treason, the official news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
South Korea expressed deep concerns about a series of occurrences in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), including execution of Jang Song-Thaek, uncle-in- law of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Friday.
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to the country's former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav currently serving a five-year jail term for his involvement in a fodder scam when he was the Chief Minister of the eastern state of Bihar.
A court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region sentenced a Vietnamese woman to death with a two year reprieve for trafficking more than four kilograms of drugs.
Traditional Chinese dance drama Silk Road comes to Britain for the first time It was performed by Gansu Dance Drama and Opera Ensemble on Wednesday and Thursday at the Peacock Theater of the Sadler's Wells group, Britain's leading dance house.
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