Crowds jeered France's leaders at a tribute on Monday to victims of last week's truck attack in Nice and an opinion poll showed a sharp drop in confidence in the ability of President Francois Hollande's government to combat terrorism.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday presided over a parade in central Baghdad as Iraqi security forces made significant progress in battles against Islamic State (IS) militants to free the last major IS stronghold in Mosul.
Japan's massive government pension fund confirmed Thursday that it has sued the crisis-hit Toshiba Corp. for around 960 million yen (9.1 million dollars) in damages over an accounting scandal that brought down the electronics giant' s share price.
After a flurry of boat departures that sent hundreds of migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, survivors told police they had been kept for weeks on one meal a day in holding houses near the Libyan shore.
Cambodia has reported 1,656 dengue fever cases in the first four months of 2016, a 168-percent rise from only 617 cases over the same period last year, according to the government's latest report on Saturday.
Confidence at Japanese manufacturers tumbled to a three-year low in May and is seen recovering only modestly in the next three months, a Reuters poll found, in a sign the yen's rise is taking its toll on exporters of cars and electronics.
Actress Amber Heard has filed for divorce from husband Johnny Depp after just 15 months of marriage.
British actor, 35, who starred in Thor and appears in BBC spy drama The Night Manager, ‘in pole position’ for 007 role after LA source quoted as saying Daniel Craig turned down HK$770m to do two more Bond films
The plastic-surgery tourism boom in Korea appears to be waning with the number of Chinese customers shrinking from its peak of over 79,000 in 2014.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (May 6) in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in a bid to bolster ties and seek to resolve a decades-long territorial dispute.
A year after a devastating 7.9- magnitude earthquake, the Nepalese government has initiated reconstruction of damaged cultural heritages on Monday.
Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday said that assembly lines at its plants in Aichi Prefecture, where the auto giant is headquartered, as well as those in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures had been suspending due to last week's powerful earthquakes in Japan's southwest tightening supply chains and causing a parts shortage.
China Coal Energy Co. posted a huge loss and shrinking revenue in 2015 as the saturated coal industry has begun to bite into corporate profitability.
The proportion of renewable generation in New Zealand's electricity production hit a two-decade high last year, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) said Thursday.
Growth in New Zealand's manufacturing sector slowed last month as job numbers fell, according to the latest performance of manufacturing index (PMI) out Friday.
China aims to create at least 10 million new urban jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 4.5 percent this year, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the legislative annual session on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Saudi Arabia as part of his three-nation trip from March 30 during which he will also visit Washington to attend Nuclear Security Summit, where his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif is also scheduled to be present.
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