Israeli war jets carried out successive airstrikes early on Thursday morning on training facilities that belong to Islamic Hamas movement in northern Gaza Strip and on Gaza city, security officials said.
At least eight people including two women and one policeman were killed and over 80 others injured on Tuesday during clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's eastern metropolitan of Lahore, local media and officials said.
Tencent, the operator of WeChat, or Weixin, a popular instant messaging service in China, said Wednesday it has shut down 20 million prostitution-related WeChat accounts so far this year.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and scores of its employees at a store in central China's Hunan Province have agreed to seek an out-of-court settlement after the conclusion of a two-day arbitration over a labor dispute.
The Portuguese police force announced on Monday it detained 258 people over the weekend, with tens of thousands of Spanish football fans arriving in Portugal's capital Lisbon to watch the European Champions League final.
The outrage over the death of at least 245 coal miners in the western Turkish town of Soma has sparked anti-government protests Wednesday across the nation with crowds chanting for resignation of the government.
India on Monday concluded its ninth and final phase of the Lok Sabha election with a record high turnout of over 66 percent throughout the polling for over a month, said election officials and media report.
Russia on Monday drew Kiev's attention over media reports that a Ukrainian military-space enterprise had allegedly been negotiating with third countries on missile technology sale.
Ten more people have been asked to present written accounts to serve the investigation of a bribery allegations relating to the capital Hanoi's urban railway construction project Line 1.
Japanese car maker Toyota has reportedly suspended production at its main production base near Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka state in southern India.
Japan on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russia over crisis related to Crimea, according to Japan's Foreign Ministry.
Moscow will lend a helicopter to Ukrainian inspectors who asked to carry out a monitoring mission over Russia's Belgorod and Kursk regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.
Moscow gave permission to Kiev for an inspection flight over the border region between the two countries, Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday, in an apparent effort to clear concerns that Russia is building up military presence there.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Tuesday 77 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to three years in prison over charges of riots and violence, state- run MENA news agency reported.
Egypt's Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday suspended the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi over charges of inciting the killing of protesters to study requests to change the judges panel, state-run Nile TV reported.
China's property market might have outgrown its boom days, but predictions of an imminent property bubble burst and economic crash are premature.
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) concluded here Saturday on a note of cautious optimism about the world economy.
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