Malaysian police said Thursday that the information they got suggested the Taiwanese tourist who was abducted at an island resort last week remains alive.
Indonesia said Tuesday it is reviewing cooperation with Australia after an alleged spying case conducted by Australia against the country, marking Jakarta's latest response to the incident after recalling its ambassador in Canberra on Monday.
The Mexican writer, journalist and essayist Elena Poniatowska was awarded the prestigious Premio Cervantes (Cervantes Prize) on Tuesday, which carried a cash award of 125,000 euros (168,750 U.S. dollars).
The Israeli Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an al-Qaida operative against his detention without any trial, a Court Authority statement revealed Tuesday.
David Cameron has became the first British prime minister to make phone call to the Iranian president in more than a decade, ahead of next week's nuclear negotiations in Geneva, said the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.
A schoolboy once arrested for spreading rumors online was expelled from school in northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday, though the government has launched an ensuing investigation.
The condition of South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela is still "stable but critical," the Presidency said Monday on its website.
Abdulla Yameen was sworn in as Maldives president on Sunday, a day after wining a closely contested runoff election, ending nearly two years of political uncertainties that pose threat to the Indian Ocean holiday paradise's vital tourism sector.
A tornado touched down in Chicago, a city in the U.S. state of Illinois, at midday Sunday, bringing along heavy rains and strong winds, accompanied by thunderbolts and lightning, and turning the sky as pitch dark as night.
Due to the vast devastation and huge loss of lives wrought by super-typhoon Haiyan (locally named Yolanda) that slammed the Central Philippines a week ago, the country' economic growth could slow down and the incidence of poverty could rise.
A policeman was shot dead in a car by unidentified militants in Eastern Cairo late Sunday, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram website reported.
Maldives President Mohamed Waheed on Friday stepped down as president as the country was prepared to hold the second round of the presidential elections.
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, has helped redeploy 200 Congolese police to areas liberated from the M23 rebel group, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The latest statistics from Japan's health ministry show that one in 49 babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent, giving way to a growing demographic of mixed-race nationals in Japan, known colloquially as "Hafu."
Milan prosecutors were investigating the Italian subsidiary of Apple for alleged fraud of around one billion euros (1.3 billion U.S. dollars), local reports said on Wednesday.
Police in U.S. city Pittsburgh are responding to a shooting at Brashear High School Wednesday, and at least three people were injured, local TV station KDKA reported.
Two training fighter jets collided and crashed on Wednesday in western Finland, killing one of the two pilots.
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