Italy's Constitutional Court, one of the country's highest courts, on Wednesday ruled as "unconstitutional" the current voting law which was widely seen as making election results uncertain.
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey's decision to block U.S. food giant Archer Daniel Midland (ADM)'s bid for Australia's GrainCorp risks encouraging protectionists to lobby against foreign investment proposals even more strenuously in the future.
South Korea has been seeking a series of vice ministerial-level strategic talks with China and the United States to discuss the recently announced air defense identification zone (ADIZ) of China, local media reports said Sunday.
Australian police in the past weekend have released the name of a teenage surfer who has died from what appears certain to be the Australian east coast's first shark attack of the new Australian summer.
A court in Beijing on Friday upheld the verdict in the case of a wheelchair-bound man who was sentenced to six years in prison for setting off explosives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in July.
A total of 85 people were reported to have been injured in a ferry accident which happened at 1 a.m. on Friday near Hei Ling Chau island of China's Hong Kong.
A court in Beijing on Friday upheld the death sentence on a man who killed an infant girl, aged 2, when he snatched her from her pram and threw her to the ground in July.
Chemical projects brought fortune to people on Qingdao's Huangdao Island, but they also have taken their homes and even their lives.
The New Zealand economy will grow next year at its strongest rate since 2007, or before the Global Financial Crisis, led by a surge in household spending, a leading economic think-tank forecast Wednesday.
South Korea picked Lockheed Martin's F-35A stealth fighter as its main combat aircraft to better respond to possible nuclear and missile attacks from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday.
The former vice president of China Mobile, the country's largest telecom operator, has received life imprisonment for taking bribes, a court in northeast China's Jilin Province confirmed on Friday.
French police arrested the presumed gunman who targeted the country's media outlets and seriously injured a photographer at the Liberation newspaper, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Thursday.
Astronomers from the U.S. and Europe said Thursday they had observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded in the relatively nearby universe, a finding that could lead to a rewrite of standard theories on how the blast occurs.
Indian police Friday booked the country's leading investigative journalist and the editor of Tehelka weekly news magazine, Tarun Tejpal, for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman colleague during an annual media event in the western state of Goa recently.
A suspected suicide bomber was shot by security guards as he was attempting to enter the prime ministry building in Ankara on Thursday, the Anatolia news agency reported.
A suspicious bag at the Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands contained no explosives and outbound flights were resumed after a 40-minute break, an airport spokesman said on Thursday.
Turkish interior minister said Thursday that the suspected suicide bomber who was arrested outside the prime minister office carries a "fake bomb" and is not a "terrorist," Today's Zaman reported.
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