Former pro-government protest leaders were released on Wednesday after a seven-day detention at undisclosed army barracks.
In the past four months, about 3.3 million Americans have signed up for private insurance plans under President Barack Obama's signature comprehensive healthcare reform, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.
A military helicopter on Tuesday rescued an operator trapped on a construction crane by a massive fire in the southeast Canadian city of Kingston.
Australian scientists have discovered huge reserves of freshwater beneath the ocean, with the potential to be tapped as a resource for nations facing a looming global water crisis.
Nepali Congress (NC), a centrist party of Nepal, has emerged as the largest party as counting of voters concluded on Thursday, Election Commission said.
With the number of unregulated firms operating adventure tourism mushrooming in the country, the Nepal government has introduced a new provision to bring such enterprises under the scanner.
Thailand's massive anti-government protests might possibly end up in a fresh military coup shortly, according to noted scholar Pavin Chachavalpongpun at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Iran supports the Russian proposal to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham announced on Tuesday.
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to "stave off" a possible U.S. aggression, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that placing Syrian chemical weapons under international control makes sense only if the U.S. drops its military strike plan against Syria.
Russia's proposal suggesting to place Syrian chemical arms under international control "is worthy of close scrutiny," and was acceptable with a U.N. Security Council resolution, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday.
Some 19 Fukushima residents and evacuees have accused the Japanese government for neglecting aid in implementing a law enacted last June to help those nuclear victims, local press reported Friday.
An Egyptian court ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak after his petition on his last corruption case was accepted, and he is set to be put under house arrest, while the authorities continued detaining supporters of his successor Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in early July.
The Bangladeshi government Sunday made a Call to Action for Ending Preventable Child Deaths before 2035 at a program in Dhaka.
The tunnel of a metro line under construction in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, collapsed Wednesday afternoon. Two workers have been rescued and one remain trapped.
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