A bushfire in Perth's City of Swan in Western Australia has been brought under control, the state fire authority said on Friday.
A total of 3,000 policemen were mobilized on Monday to restore order in Algeria's southern province of Ghardaia, after tribal clashes which broke out on Friday left one killed and 55 others injured there, a local security source told Xinhua.
Twenty-two people were arrested on Saturday night in the Spanish city of Burgos, bringing the total of arrested people to 38 since a protest against a street construction plan started Friday night, officials said.
Eleven people were rescued and five remain missing after a container vessel sank off the coast of east China's Jiangsu Province, rescuers said Friday.
Tokyo stocks ended with a sharp surge Monday as market sentiment was boosted by a further depreciated yen and a strong rebound on Wall Street on Friday following better- than-expected U.S. jobs data for November.
A court in Beijing on Friday upheld the verdict in the case of a wheelchair-bound man who was sentenced to six years in prison for setting off explosives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in July.
Shares of Sinopec, China's top refiner listed in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, opened to tumble on Monday following Friday's deadly oil pipeline blasts in east China's Shandong Province.
The Australian government will deliver 522 million Australian dollars(almost 494.91 million U.S. dollars)to boost its research and innovation sector by 1,177 new research projects funded by the Australia Research Council (ARC), Minister for Education Christopher Pyne announced Friday.
The government said separately that the country's job availability improved for the fifth straight month, with the ratio of job offers to applicants up to 0.94 in July from 0.92 in June.
The National Alliance for Supporting Legitimacy, a pro-ousted President Mohamed Morsi bloc, called for massive protests on Friday in an attempt to pressure for the reinstatement of the "legitimate leader," official news agency MENA reported Wednesday.
As six more bodies were retrieved, the number of people died in the shipwrecks in the Philippine central province of Cebu increased to 71, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) announced on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the commission says the Everbright proprietary strategy trading system has flaws in program call and limit control, which resulted in huge orders at market prices.
It was not human error, but design flaws in a trade unit of China Everbright Securities (CES) that triggered the anomalous trades on Friday, according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged all the parties in Egypt "to act with maximum restraint" and called on "the interim authorities to ensure law and order along with guaranteeing the safety and security of all Egyptians."
Since a federal appeals court on Friday afternoon lifted a stay and allowed same-sex weddings to resume in California, hundreds of gay couples applied online for licenses.
Thirteen Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed early Friday morning when Taliban launched attack on a checkpoint in Andar district in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, an official said.
China's railways will be tested Friday, when passenger flows peak at the end of the Spring Festival holiday.
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