The kidnapping of Dutch journalist Judith Spiegel and her husband Boudewijn Berendsen had no link to al-Qaeda, Thomas Bruning, general secretary of the Dutch Association of Journalists (NVJ), told Xinhua Wednesday.
The United States was considering sanctions on Ukraine in response to its curbing of protests against the Ukrainian government's decision not to sign an association agreement with the European Union (EU), the State Department said Wednesday.
A freight train was derailed in South Korea due to the estimated mechanical fracturing, local media reported on Thursday.
A suspect was arrested on Tuesday after a the body of an infant boy was found in a washing machine in Shanghai in November
Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and economic science attended the 2013 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm Concert Hall on Tuesday.
Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and economic science attended the 2013 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm Concert Hall on Tuesday.
China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is to renovate an unfinished Western-style "Hall of Water" into a hall for foreign cultural relics, according to the museum curator.
The New Zealand government on Tuesday appointed a new military chief to succeed Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, whose term was marked by political wrangling over funding and safety issues.
Singapore's authorities arrested 27 suspects from South Asia over a rare riot happened on Sunday evening in an ethnic neighbourhood
South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday that Seoul was more closely monitoring the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after news that DPRK leader Kim Jong Un ousted his uncle-in-law Jang Song- thaek.
Brazilian prosecutors will this week investigate a riot that left four football fans injured and raised fresh doubts about the country's ability to host next year's World Cup.
Tokyo stocks ended with a sharp surge Monday as market sentiment was boosted by a further depreciated yen and a strong rebound on Wall Street on Friday following better- than-expected U.S. jobs data for November.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday evening called his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, to express his "heartfelt" condolences over the death of former President Nelson Mandela.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95
The 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has charted a course for the country's development.Among dozens of reform plans, rural land reform is considered close to the top of the agenda. CNC brings you a new kind of land exchange system in southwest China.
After holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden said in Tokyo, the first leg of his week-long trip to East Asia, Tuesday that China and Japan should set up a bilateral "crisis management mechanism" to prevent current tensions from escalating further.
A stolen container carrying radioactive cobalt-60 was found near the capital city Wednesday
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