Eight Russian military planes including four Tupolev-95 bombers were seen flying on Wednesday over the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea close to Norwegian airspace, reported the Norwegian news agency NTB.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two other wounded in clashes with eastern independence-seeking insurgents over the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
Austrian officials and Internet security authorities held a press conference in Vienna Tuesday to raise awareness over information and communication security as part of the kick-off for the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM).
Top leader Kim Jong Un's rule over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) seemed to be in a normal operation, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Friday amid growing speculation over Kim's health disorder.
At least 3,660 people have been killed and 8,756 wounded in the violent fighting in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, according to an United Nations report reaching here on Wednesday.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group staged an explosion in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish borders on Wednesday, causing unknown losses or casualties, according to the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Located in Jinzhong Basin of Shanxi Province, the 2700-year-old Pingyao Ancient Town is one of the most well-preserved ancient towns in China. Pingyao, which was added to the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1997, attracts numerous tourists from all over the world.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to support the new Afghan government emerging from months-long wrangling over the result of a presidential run-off.
An Albanian court ruled Monday that Albania's central bank governor Ardian Fullani would be put under house arrest after release from jail.
China's antitrust law enforcement is neither selective nor targeting any particular market entities or foreign firms, an official said on Thursday.
Washington said Monday that it had ordered non-employed family members of the embassy personnel in Lesotho to leave due to uncertainty over the kingdom's security situation.
A total of 42 Egyptians were injured on Monday when a passenger bus flipped over on a high way heading to Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.
Russia has handed over a total of 63 Ukrainian soldiers who crossed the border into Russian last week in exchange for all the Russian paratroopers detained in Ukraine, a paratroop commander said Sunday.
The 2014 Edinburgh International Festival ended on Sunday night with a splendid fireworks Concert performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
The Egyptian prosecution ordered on Wednesday to temporarily detain former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for 15 days over charges of leaking "national security documents" to Qatar, official MENA news agency reported.
China on Monday handed over 204 confiscated black pond turtles to Pakistan, where the rare animals' natural habitat is located.
Brazilians cried over its catastrophic 7-1 defeat by Germany in World Cup
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