Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday refused to resign under mounting pressure due to allegations of illegal financing in the ruling party.
More than 24 hours after a deadly fire broke out in a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin Province, rescuers are still racing against time in the hope of finding survivors.
At least 37 people were killed and many others were wounded when a storm with a massive tornado struck an area outside the U.S. city of Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, officials said.
The Philippine midterm elections commenced at polling locations across the country early on Monday morning.
A day after late night crackdown on thousands of Islamist protesters who were camped in Dhaka's key commercial district, Bangladesh Police Wednesday brushed aside rumors of "3,000 people dead" in the raid amid a blackout.
The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Monday the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged by federal prosecutors, seven days after the bombings killed three people and injured over 200.
U.S. stocks extended losses in choppy trading on Monday following Friday's slip, as shock from Cyprus gave investors an excuse to sell off after recent strong equity rally.
The bodies of the nine Hong Kong citizens, who died in the hot-air balloon blast last month in Egypt, have been transferred back to Hong Kong.
U.S. stocks reversed the losses in morning session to close higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting fresh intraday and closing highs ever for five sessions in a line and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock Index just 0.57 percent below its historical high.
At least three people were shot dead in two western Bangladesh districts Monday as riots erupted last week over the conviction of the country's largest Islamist party leader for war crimes continued to the fifth consecutive day.
U.S. stocks pared all early losses to close higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a second high ever, as Warren Buffett's positive remarks on stocks outweighed concerns about the so-called sequester and a plunge in Chinese stocks as a result of harsh moves to constrain increasing house prices.
The death toll in recent clashes in Egypt's riot-stricken Port Said governorate has risen to 40, while the total number of injured people has exceeded 1,000, official news agency MENA reported Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama was officially sworn in to the second term at a private ceremony in the White House Sunday, beginning his round two to face many old challenges.
A flotilla of the People's Liberation Army Navy patrolled waters near the Diaoyu Islands on Monday, after returning from a training exercise in the West Pacific.