Pakistan's top court on Wednesday granted bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the murder of a senior tribal elder, his defence lawyers said.
A retired police officer in the U.S. state of West Virginia was killed Wednesday by the police after firing an assault rifle at a courthouse, local media reported.
A Chinese provincial court announced on Wednesday that it will hear the appeal of Bo Xilai, sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power last month.
The co-winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics Peter Higgs on Tuesday highlighted the importance of fundamental science and the blue-sky research after the Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh was awarded the Prize.
Chinese drama "Back to 1942" lead a pack of films submitted by 76 countries and regions to compete in the Foreign Language Film category of the 86th Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Monday.
The HSBC China Composite PMI data, which covers both manufacturing and service sectors in the country, signaled a further expansion of output in September, and the rate of expansion remained modest, with the index posting at 51.2 in September, easing from 51.8 in August, HSBC said in an emailed press release here on Tuesday.
Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock's power and added 3-D premium concerted to help "Gravity" shot to the top of North America box office chart, while the weekend's another wide release "Runner, Runner" finished in the third place with a much smaller take.
The Philippine economy will continue to grow faster toward the end of the year despite a slight rise in inflation in September and the continued threats to the global economy, particularly that of the United States, the country's leading trading partner.
A nine-year-old Israeli girl was seriously wounded Saturday night during a shooting attack near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Typhoon Fitow made landfall in east China's Fujian Province in the wee hours on Monday, packing winds up to 151 km per hour, the National Meteorological Center said.
Pentagon has confirmed that U.S. military conducted a "successful" operation Saturday in Libya to capture longtime al-Qaida member Abu Anas al Libi, who was behind the bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
A race car crash during the Grand Prix of Houston on Sunday sent fence debris flying into the crowd, injuring the driver, a timing official and at least 13 spectators on Sunday, local media reported.
A female suspect who triggered lengthy car chase by the police from the White House to Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead, local police chief confirmed.
Frank Githigia was bubbling with optimism when he woke up at dawn on Sept. 21 to meet clients at a posh coffee shop inside Westgate Shopping Mall located in an up market district in Nairobi.
The sentence of 50 years imprisonment for former Liberian President Charles Taylor was upheld by the appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Thursday in Leidschendam, near The Hague.
Kenyan police are questioning one suspect in connection to an attack on Wednesday night in Kenya's north region Waji where a civilian was killed and four others seriously injured.
London's private gallery Eykyn Maclean will start an exhibition this Thursday to explore Dutch painter, post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh's life between the years 1886 and 1888 when he lived and worked in Paris.
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