Rupert Murdoch wed former supermodel Jerry Hall in a low-key ceremony in central Londonon Friday.
U.S. stocks suffered big losses Friday, as Wall Street assessed a mixed set of jobs data amid oil weakness.
Stocks from Japan to Australia climbed on Monday (Jan 25) as the rebound that sent global stocks surging by the most in 3 1/2 years continued in Asia, amid bets central banks will come to the rescue of turbulent financial markets. Oil extended gains above US$32 a barrel.
Authorities of Canada on Saturday confirmed that the 17-year-old suspect in Friday's school shootings in in west Canada was charged with crimes, including four counts of first-degree murder.
The U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. on Friday nervously braced for a potentially historic winter storm, two days after botched response by local authorities to a snowfall paralyzed the whole town.
Washington, D.C and another five U.S. states along the U.S. East Coast on Thursday declared state of emergency as the region was bracing itself for a historic snowstorm over the weekend that was expected to dump up to 2 feet of snow.
About 16 Taliban insurgents and three Afghan soldiers have been killed in fresh military operations in the countryside, said the country's Defense Ministry on Friday.
Eight people were killed and 42 others injured Friday when a bus carrying illegal refugees overturned in western Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on Friday to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited in over a decade.
A total of 29 people were working underground when the collapse occurred at about 8 a.m. Friday in Pingyi County, Shandong Province. 11 of them have been rescued by Saturday morning, rescuers said.
Beijing has issued a yellow alert for heavy pollution on Friday morning, according to local authorities.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met here Friday with visiting Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull to boost bilateral cooperation, but divergence remained between them over Japan's controversial plan to restart its so-called scientific whaling.
Typhoon Melor which has left the central provinces of Philippines, killed at least 17 people and left 20 injured, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Friday.
Australia's Prime Minister has on Friday pushed state and territory leaders to back indefinite detention for convicted terrorists, under new laws proposed at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is dead, Afghan officials confirmed on Friday.
A National Retail Federation survey on Sunday found that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, a sign of how quickly and deeply American shopping habits have changed.
Cue the bargain hunters, and let the holiday shopping marathon begin.
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