A roundtable meeting on Pakistan- China Economic Cooperation on Wednesday urged Pakistani government to accelerate its efforts to remove all concerns, obstacles and problems faced by Chinese companies in Pakistan.
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday paid respect to Nelson Mandela, who he called "a giant of our times," and urged action to build a peaceful, sustainable and equitable world.
Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel- Fatah al-Sisi met Monday with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who praised the army's response to the will of the people, state-run al-Ahram Online reported.
A high court in central China's Hunan Province ruled in favor of a rape victim's mother who sued a local authority for putting her in a labor camp.
A high court in central China's Hunan Province has ruled in favor of a rape victim's mother who sued a local authority for putting her in a labor camp.
Unlike Apple fans who queue up overnight to purchase the latest smartphone, Li Xiang casts a cold eye over the iPhones that pass through in his hands each day. Over the past two years, Li has spent 11 hours each day painting and assembling iPhones on the production line at the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, earning around 2,000 yuan (325 U.S. dollars) a month. Returning to his dormitory after a hard day's work, the 26-year-old often asks himself, "My youth has been wasted here, who can tell me where my future is?"
With record low approval ratings and most of his economic promises in tatters, French President Francois Hollande on Sunday said growth was recovering and unemployment would decrease as government's measures were boring fruit, likely to ease growing public tension.
Russia's ambassador to the United Nations objected on Thursday to a U.S. assertion Moscow was against a U.N. investigation team to follow up on allegations that chemical weapons have been used during the civil war in Syria.
South African former president Mandela was responding to medical treatment, the presidency website said on Wednesday.
U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has agreed to seek political asylum in Venezuela, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama is not going to cancel his visit to Russia, U.S. ambassador in Moscow said Monday.
At least 42 people were killed Monday in clashes outside a military facility in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the Health Ministry told Xinhua.
The new head of the main exiled opposition group, Syrian National Coalition (SNC), offered Sunday a truce in the Syrian central province of Homs during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said.
The families of 29 men who died in New Zealand's worst modern mining disaster were Friday left with the prospect of negligible compensation despite winning damages from the company that was running the coal mine at the time.
Peter Chan, who once alleged to be a Feng Shui master, was held guilty for forging the will of late female tycoon Nina Wang on Thursday.
Late female tycoon Nina Wang's "good friend" Peter Chan was sentenced to jail for 12 years for forgery of will and false use of instruments. The judge of the case repeatedly accused him for being "shameless" and "wicked" in his judgment.
Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations denied Wednesday that the former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was on plane with Bolivian President Evo Morales, media reports said.
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