Russia is a global power not a regional one, a senior Russian parliamentarian said Wednesday.
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday visited a high school in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province, expressing expectation of future progress by Chinese youth.
China needs to manage tradeoffs arising from reform, and effective implementation is the key to success, World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati said here on Sunday.
In her first testimony to Congress, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday she would continue to implement the monetary policy made by former Chair Ben Bernanke.
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar's son -- from her second marriage
Citing complexity, security and weather, the head of the joint UN-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission charged with ridding the munitions from Syria said Wednesday though the operation has been delayed, it is expected to meet its June deadline.
Jane Campion, New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter, is to head the Jury of the 67th Festival de Cannes in 2014, the organisers announced Tuesday.
The Queen in Britain delivered a televised Christmas speech Wednesday afternoon, reflecting on the past year when the 60 anniversary of her coronation was celebrated and her great-grandson was born.
Newly crowned Miss Angola 2014 Zuleica Wilson vows to focus during her mandate on awareness campaigns against HIV/AIDS and on the value of education.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday announced the dissolution of the House of Representatives
Beijing police denied on Tuesday that a Chinese woman attempted to blackmail a male foreigner whose unlicensed motorcycle allegedly hit her at a crosswalk in the city.
On a whirlwind PR tour of Australia, Myanmar's "iconic" leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week, has for the first time, signaled her desire for foreign - in this case Australian - support for her presidential run, most likely in 2015.
Indian police Friday booked the country's leading investigative journalist and the editor of Tehelka weekly news magazine, Tarun Tejpal, for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman colleague during an annual media event in the western state of Goa recently.
U.S. Federal Reserve chief nominee Janet Yellen said Thursday that the country's economy still needs the central bank's life support and premature withdrawal of stimulus would be costly.
The Sri Lankan military on Sunday rejected a new video released by a British television channel which accuses the army of committing war crimes.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday she is more concerned with governing than with her re-election next year.
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will undergo surgery Tuesday at Buenos Aires' Fundacion Favaloro Hospital, after doctors found a brain hematoma, said a statement issued by the hospital on Monday.