Britain's House of Commons on Thursday voted to reject a government motion on military action against Syria after eight hours of intense debate.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, at 1:27 p.m. Friday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Tens of thousands of marchers on Wednesday gathered in misty rains on Washington's National Mall to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech given 50 years ago.
Police in north China's Shanxi Province are on a manhunt for a woman who gouged out the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
New Zealand food safety regulators on Wednesday said the bacteria that sparked an international alert over Fonterra dairy products was not the bacterium that can cause botulism.
The South African Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal for a no-confidence motion against President Jacob Zuma in Parliament.
The teenage son of a renowned Chinese tenor, who was allegedly involved in a gang-rape case, stood trial in a Beijing district court on Wednesday
Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonia Patriota stepped down Monday amid escalating tensions with La Paz after a Bolivian senator fled homeland with the help of a Brazilian diplomat.
A vehicle of the UN Chemical Weapons Investigation Team was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers in Syria, the UN said on Monday, adding that the team members were safe.
The UN's Palestine refugee agency on Monday condemned the killing of one of its staff members by Israeli troops in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN spokesman told reporter here.
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court announced that the trial of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power involving Bo Xilai adjourned on Sunday morning and will resume on Monday.
The trial of Bo Xilai, former Communist Party of China (CPC) chief of Chongqing Municipal Committee, opened Thursday morning at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province.
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province continued to hear the bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power case involving Bo Xilai Friday morning.
The Syrian opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of killing 1,193 people in chemical weapon attacks in suburbs of Damascus on Wednesday.
A U.S. military judge on Wednesday sentenced Army Private First Class Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks.
The relationship between China and New Zealand remains strong despite recent food safety concerns, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said during a visit to Beijing Thursday.
An Egyptian court ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak after his petition on his last corruption case was accepted, and he is set to be put under house arrest, while the authorities continued detaining supporters of his successor Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in early July.
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