Leaders of Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) denied late on Tuesday firing any rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Israeli warplanes early Wednesday launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
A light trainer aircraft plunged into a lagoon in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, killing both onboard, officials said Monday.
Turkey said on Thursday that it had detained an intelligence agent working for a country in the U. S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) for helping three British girls cross into Syria through Turkey.
Australian researchers have created the world's first 3D-printed jet engine in a breakthrough that engineers believe will lead to lighter, cheaper, and more fuel- efficient jets.
China's banking watchdog issued a notice encouraging more private funds toward rural credit cooperatives (RCC) on Monday amid reforms.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday warned that Europe could slide back into recession, German newspaper Frankfurt Allgemeine reported.
A Chinese investor became the 500th person to be granted a Significant Investment Visa (SIV) by the Australian government.
Gut bacteria can turn a nutrient found in red meat into metabolites that increase the risk of developing heart disease, according to a U.S. study out Tuesday that may lead to new strategies for safeguarding individuals' cardiovascular health.
A senior UN envoy called on Iraqi government to probe into the attack at Camp Speicher military base in June and massacres of hundreds of Iraqis soldiers by extremists, a UN spokesman said Wednesday.
China's supreme court on Thursday annulled the death penalty for two people convicted of forcing into prostitution the daughter of a social campaigner.
South Korea's Unification Ministry said Thursday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) rejected its offer to hold dialogue on a South Korean Christian missionary detained in Pyongyang for more than seven months.
Kiev has asked Moscow to compensate it for the damage caused by the loss of offshore energy reserves in Crimea, following the peninsula's incorporation into Russia.
The White House was locked down temporarily Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle followed a motorcade into a secure area, according to local media reports.
A signal failure was the cause of a subway collision in South Korea, indicating the accident came from human errors, the Seoul government office said Saturday.
The Italian government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday won a confidence vote in the lower chamber on a labor decree which is going through parliamentary procedure to be converted into law.
The probe into the missing flight MH370 "remains a very difficult ongoing operation," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told his British counterpart David Cameron on Tuesday.
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