The Great Fiji Shark Count will work with the Fijian Ministry of Fisheries to ascertain how 50 baby hammerhead sharks were found dead along the Nukulau beachfront over the weekend, local media reported Monday.
Sri Lanka's highest court ruled that the ongoing impeachment process of the chief justice as unconstitutional here on Thursday, deepening the crisis between parliament and judiciary, an official said here.
A splendid firework show and countdown celebration was held in Hong Kong on the eve of 2013 new year.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been officially discharged from a New York hospital after she was treated for a blood clot, the State Department said on Wednesday.
China's state news agency Xinhua unveiled its list of 10 most attention-grabbing events of China in 2012, including medical reform, first female astronaut, first aircraft carrier.
Five workers were killed and 18 others injured after a concrete platform under construction collapsed in Shanghai.
While the nation was mourning the death of a 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped two weeks ago in the Indian capital, a 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in the eastern state of West Bengal, reported local media Monday.
Which news event impresses you most in 2012? The state-owned Xinhua News Agency has released its annual list of the Top 10 domestic news events.
India's nodal medical body, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has reportedly questioned the government's motive behind its decision to shift the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim to a hospital in Singapore Thursday, where she died in the wee hours of Saturday.
Former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has been summoned as a witness for questioning in a fraud case, the Russian Investigative Committee said Friday.
Head of Islamic Hamas movement's government accused Israel not committed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, which was reached in November and it is subjected to collapse. Zaza said the Israeli government regretted pledges it had made when the ceasefire that Egypt had sponsored was reached on Nov. 21, mainly easing more than five years of an Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007.
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said Wednesday that he is currently discussing a cabinet reshuffle with Prime Minister Hesham Qandil.
Bush, 88, who had been hospitalized for about a month with bronchitis, has been in intensive care since Sunday and is now on a liquids-only diet, local TV channel KHOU said.
A middle-aged man in a dark suit, and a tieless white shirt, laid a wreath at the park's statue of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Then he walked into the surrounding crowd and began a casual chat.The visitor was Xi Jinping, the newly elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Sunday published a profile of Li Keqiang, China's vice premier who was re-elected this November as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Park Geun-hye, daughter of late dictator Park Chung-hee, is set to become the first female president of South Korea after she won the tightly contested presidential election held Wednesday. Analysts say Park's victory will extend the rules of conservative Saenuri party for another five years, yet the challenge of overcoming partisan wrangling remains.
A relatively new residential building in east China's Zhejiang Province collapsed on Sunday.