If Rijal Almaa, a stone village tucked into a fold of Saudi Arabia's southern mountains, showcases the polished end-point of new efforts in the kingdom to preserve cultural heritage, the hamlet of Watan Emsoudah represents the difficulties faced.
While the ongoing fashion week in Milan is subtitled "man", some brands' shows were decidedly unisex, featuring male models in clothes which could easily belong to women.
Seek and destroy efforts for decades-old bombs and explosive munitions strewn across landlocked Laos since the Vietnam War era will get a boost of 2,178,865 U.S. dollars in funding from the United States, local media reported Monday.
Rainstorms will hit some southern Chinese regions over the next 24 hours, the national observatory said Saturday.
In the town of Naraha, most of which lies within a 20-kilometer radius of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s radiation-leaking nuclear power plant, only six percent of the residents have returned home.
Germany's federal investigators have opened cases against dozens of people who have arrived in Germany seeking asylum for suspected terror links, German media reported on Wednesday.
China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
A Myanmar military plane, which was moving from Tounggoo air base to Nay Pyi Taw to prepare for group training flight, had crashed at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport, an official report confirmed Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed caution about a plan to end the war in Syria, while saying progress had been made on fighting the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.
Nearly 60 people were killed and 78 others injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria, local officials said Wednesday.
Amid heated discussions triggered by a Xinhua commentary released last Saturday, leading international financial media and market experts have expressed confidence in China's determination to defend the value of its currency the yuan against speculative shorting, as well as in the success of its efforts to do so.
A strong earthquake rattled southern Alaska early Sunday morning, causing power outages and evacuations in the area. No injuries were reported so far.
Australia's Defence Department could be forced to hand over millions of dollars in payouts to current and former employees, after local media uncovered more than 300 compensation claims for abuse, damages, personal injury and a "defective administration".
Vietnamese army has said three unidentified objects that fell from the sky in the country's two northern provinces, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai, were manufactured by Russia.
Hundreds of Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday carried out a series of attacks on Iraqi security forces and captured some positions near the oil refinery town Baiji in Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
What should you do if you get caught in a situation like that which took place in Paris last week? Here are some tips from security experts who spoke to the BBC.
A ferry sailing from Macao to Hong Kong hit an object in waters near Lantau Island on Sunday, leaving 83 people injured, Hong Kong police.
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