An Athens court sentenced on Monday evening Greek former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos to twenty years imprisonment for money laundering and receiving kickbacks from state armaments' purchases in one of the country's most prominent corruption scandals to be brought before justice in recent years.
Singapore's research and development investments are seeing encouraging outcomes, local broadcaster Channel NewsAsia reported on Tuesday, citing an official of the National Research Foundation.
Seven years after the "Curse of the Golden Flower," veteran director Zhang Yimou and his muse Gong Li have got together again for his new feature project "Gui Lai."
The European Parliament on Tuesday launched its awareness and information campaign in the run-up to the 2014 general elections that will create a new generation of European Union leadership.
While an argument for tax reform is beginning to take shape in Washington, political analysts and prognosticators said any significant tax overhaul is a long way off.
While an argument for tax reform is beginning to take shape in Washington, political analysts and prognosticators said any significant tax overhaul is a long way off.
Biomedical advances may allow people to live to age 120 and beyond in the future but that's not what more than half Americans really want, at least for the moment, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday.
An Istanbul court passed judgments on nearly 300 suspects accused of plotting to topple the ruling government in a battleground case as a part of the decade-long conflict between Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey's secularist establishment.
American surfer Benjamin Schiller Friberg on Thursday began a journey from Havana to Key West by stand-up rowing on a surfing paddleboard, local media reported.
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Monday rejected the preliminary results of Sunday's general elections, claiming "serious irregularities".
Moscow may exchange a married couple convicted in Germany for spying for Russia with a CIA agent jailed in Russia, the couple's lawyer said Monday.
Myanmar Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham has called for taking measures to prevent marriage under 18 years of age and having pregnancy before 20 years old and for assisting in reducing unwanted teenage pregnancy, official media reported Friday.
Twenty people in China were given jail terms ranging from seven years to life for manufacturing and selling "gutter oil" in two provinces, a local court announced Tuesday.
About 3,000 Los Angeles County government employees staged a rally Tuesday asking for an end to a five-year salary freeze.
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's classic movie "Jurassic Park ." To celebrate its two-decade existence, Universal Pictures has re-released it in theaters in 3D.
Myanmar will continue to fight drug in 2013 under a revised 15-year drug eradication plan (1999-2014), which has been extended for another five years until 2019 to maintain the momentum of war against drug.
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