Former South African President Nelson Mandela's health has improved but he remains in a critical condition, the Presidency said on Thursday.
South Korea's finance ministry on Thursday upgraded its 2013 growth outlook for the country to 2.7 percent from an earlier estimate of 2.3 percent, citing fiscal stimulus package and modest recovery of the global economy.
The South African Presidency on Monday lambasted certain media for transgressing medical ethics in covering former President Nelson Mandela's hospitalization.
Minutes after the jet bridge of a Moscow-Havana flight disembarked on Monday, journalists dashing to seat 17A got disappointed as Edward Snowden, the U.S. intelligence whistleblower, was not there.
The ailing 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition becomes critical, South African presidency said on Sunday.
U.S. stocks plummeted more than 2 percent Thursday following a sell-off on Wednesday that was triggered by fears that the Federal Reserve would reduce its aggressive economic stimulus program later this year.
Tourists abused an injured dolphin that was beached in south China on Sunday, resulting in the animal's death as well as a wave of public outrage.
Popular U.S. singer, actress and entrepreneur Jennifer Lopez received the 2,500th star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday, capping a two-decade-strong fruitful singing career.
The Citadel of Ho Dynasty, a magnificent stone structure built in the late 14th century, is a unique structure not only in Vietnam but also in the whole of East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Malaysia's personal computer (PC) market recorded 898,000 units in the first quarter ended March 31, 2013, which was an increase of 18 percent sequentially, with Lenovo emerging as the top vendor, Internet Data Center(IDC) said.
Thirteen people were killed after a tourist bus plunged into a valley on Tuesday in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to local traffic police.
The classified phone and internet surveillance programs, which sparked controversy in the recent week, have prevented dozens of terrorist plots, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) chief Keith Alexander claimed Wednesday, promising to disclose more details within next week.
The 46th Stanley International Dragon Boat Championship kicked off on Thursday. Over 240 local and overseas teams with approximately 5,000 paddlers fought for the championship of the contest in celebration for the Duan Wu Festival.
Scientists have announced the discovery of the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, which suggests the early ancestors of humans might be "miniscule monkeys" smaller than rats.
Myanmar's Foreign Ministry has called on the Malaysian authorities to immediately probe into a case in which Myanmar citizens were attacked in Malaysia and take legal action to responsible persons, a press release of the ministry said here Wednesday.
A fresh suicide bombing in a police precinct occurred on Monday morning.This was the first time that such incident happened in a police precinct after the last one in April 2011.
Islamic Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, renewed its claim that the government being formed in the West Bank was illegal.
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