A Hong Kong movie entitled " Love in the Buff" has won the Audience Award in the competition section of the Osaka Asian Film Festival this year, according to the local government press release on Monday.
French former president Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with taking financial advantages of the L'Oreal heiress Bennecourt, his lawyer said Thursday night.
Cyprus' parliament rejected a Eurogroup-imposed haircut on bank deposits, plunging the eastern Mediterranean island into economic uncertainty verging on uncontrolled default.
At the annual parliament session, Zhang Dejiang, also a member of the top decision-making body of the ruling Communist Party, was elected as chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
Li Keqiang was endorsed as Chinese premier Friday morning at the ongoing session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature
Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 77, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected the new pope on Wednesday on the second day of secrete ballots in the cardinals' conclave held in Vatican City.
Wednesday marks the second day of the second lunar month, known in Chinese as Er Yue Er, "a time for the dragon to raise its head," as a Chinese saying goes. For many Chinese, it's also a time to have their very first haircut in the year of the snake.
Wei Ruihong is a 33-year-old girl born with a rare "brittle bone" disease which has caused her to break bones as many as 31 times. Through launching a charity website, she successfully raised large sums of money in exchange for her counselling service. The money allowed her to receive treatment in Italy, one of the world's best place to treatment of the bone disease.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday in a military hospital in Caracas, Vice President Nicols Maduro announced on the national radio and television.
U.S. stocks pared all early losses to close higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a second high ever, as Warren Buffett's positive remarks on stocks outweighed concerns about the so-called sequester and a plunge in Chinese stocks as a result of harsh moves to constrain increasing house prices.
A baby born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appears to have been cured, according to findings presented Monday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.
At least six policemen were killed in an ambush in Malaysia's Sabah state, police said Sunday, as authorities tried to ease tensions amid continued standoff with Sulu gunmen.
A fish contaminated with radiation levels as much as 5,100 times of legal limits has been caught near Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hitting a record high, said the nuclear plant operator.
The death toll of Egypt's Luxor balloon accident rose to 19 Tuesday afternoon after a seriously- wounded English tourist died at Luxor International Hospital, Mohamed Sultan, head of Egypt's Ambulance Authority, confirmed to Xinhua.
The death of a Russian child adopted in the United States will be a key topic when Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets U.S. counterpart John Kerry next week, a senior diplomat said Thursday.
A former South Korean police chief was sentenced to 10 months in jail and was immediately imprisoned Wednesday for defaming late former president Roh Moo-hyun.
Pakistan Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh resigned on Tuesday after speculations that he may be appointed as caretaker Prime Minister to oversee parliamentary elections, officials said.
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