U.S. crude price gained Thursday amid better-than-expected economic growth data from the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday evening that he has authorized targeted airstrikes and airdrops of aid in Iraq amid a humanitarian crisis.
Bloody clashes erupted in Egypt between the security and supporters of ousted former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday, the first anniversary of his removal.
Russia has already received around 4, 000 Ukrainian refugees, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
Thai former acting caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, together with 32 other prominent political figures, were released on Thursday after being detained for three to seven days.
Hong Kong is striving to raise its capacity to receive tourists, the city's Chief Executive C Y Leung said here on Thursday.
Two anti-government protesters were killed and 22 others injured in a gun and grenade attack here early Thursday, local media reported.
Death toll from a sunken South Korean ferry continue to rise to 181 on Friday morning as divers kept searching bodies, or possible survivors, inside the submerged vessel.
A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)AP-3C Orion aircraft has detected a possible signal in the vicinity of the Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield, Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) Angus Houston confirmed on Thursday.
Hundreds of flights were canceled on Thursday after public sector workers walked out at seven airports across Germany, local media reported.
Vietnam is asked by the Malaysian side to assist search in waters off the Malaysian coast, a Vietnamese official said on Thursday over the upcoming search plan for the missing Malaysian jet.
The White House on Thursday urged Russia to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty amid festering events unfolding in Ukraine's Russian- speaking Crimea peninsula.
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Thursday, causing no injuries or damage, said a local police spokesperson.
A total of 17,760 fires broke out during China's Spring Festival holiday, leaving 43 people dead and 17 injured, the fire department of the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
Snowstorms are forecast to continue affecting millions who are returning to work after family reunions during the Spring Festival holiday.
More than 8 million train trips are expected to be made on Thursday, the final day of the week-long Spring Festival holiday, as millions return to work from family reunions, according to the China Railway Corporation (CRC) on Thursday.
Two people were killed and six others were wounded following a shooting outside several bars in the U.S. state of Louisiana Thursday, local media reported.
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