Marking just the third time the Duchess of Cambridge has worn a tiara, Kate chose her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana's crown to wear to the largest annual reception at Buckingham Palace.
Aung San Suu Kyi met secretly with the ex-junta leader apparently to ensure a smooth transition of power following her pro-democracy opposition party's landslide win last month in Myanmar’s parliamentary elections, sources said.
She is married to one of the world's richest men, yet little is known about Ms Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and current Parliament Speaker U Shwe Mann on Thursday agreed to place emphasis on national reconciliation and national consolidation in forming the new parliament, said a joint statement following talks between the two figures in Nay Pyi Taw.
One of the 100 or so survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 has been saved after a life-threatening lung condition at a hospital in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, the Modern Express reported.
Yang Yueqing can still recall her very first sight of "Olivia" three years ago.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday faced a marathon grilling from Congressional Republicans about her role in the botched U.S. Libya policy and her initial account of what caused the 2012 Benghazi attack in the first face-off since Clinton announced her White House bid earlier this year.
The daughter of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday shaved her head to show support for her father's presidential bid in 2016.
Abu Sayyaf gunmen freed its unharmed captive mayor in a remote village in Sulu of southern Philippines Tuesday morning, after holding her six months in the jungle, according to authorities. There was no immediate report if ransom was paid in exchange for the release of kidnap victim Mayor Gemma Adana, who was escorted by local officials at the house of Sulu vice Gov. Sakur Tan.
Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aims to revamp her image in a bid to go from a stiff politician to one who can relate to voters, but it remains uncertain how successful her bid will be.
Malaria researcher's achievement calls to mind theory that we have multiple intelligences we must harness, as well as showing determination, to succeed
A conciliatory letter from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo to South Korean President Park Geun-hye was delivered on Thursday as the two leaders had yet to sit down face-to-face for a bilateral summit.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday will unveil a sweeping plan to curb what she has said are the abuses of Wall Street, proposing everything from raising the fines that can be levied by regulators to requiring executives to bear some of those costs.
A woman in South Korea, having come from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) four years ago, has wanted back since she got here to her "fatherland." That has been banned by the South Korean government, which doesn't send "defectors" back under the current law.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Tuesday expressed her firm opposition to a controversial oil pipeline after keeping silence on the issue for months.
Lu Mei-chen had been busy covering everything in her three-story home all night and into the morning, just in time before a pest control squad sent by a local health agency came to spray pesticides.
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