French foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday that a French priest was kidnapped between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Cameroon.
Iraqi Prime Minster Nouri al- Maliki warned here on Thursday that terrorism fueled by the civil war in neighboring Syria may come back in his country, as he seeks U.S. arms to combat the rising insurgency.
The German Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador for talks on Thursday as German politicians voiced outrage at alleged U.S. spying on mobile phone communications of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
One was killed and two were seriously injured after an empty passenger train slipped and collided with another passenger train on the Qinghai-Tibet railway in Qinghai Province on Wednesday night, local authorities said Thursday.
Moscow has no comment on information announced by a senior Syrian official on the timing of the Geneva-II international conference, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Sydney faces what could be its hottest October day on record on Thursday, with temperatures expected to hit 42 degrees Celsius in the far west, local media reported.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States and Russia have reached an agreement on a UN Security Council resolution about Syrian chemical weapons.
Egypt extended state of emergency that was scheduled to end on Thursday by two months, official news agency MENA reported.
Egyptian police arrested a wanted senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood ahead of the group's massive protests aiming to reinstate Mohamed Morsi as president, official news agency MENA reported Thursday.
China Everbright Securities (CES) said on Thursday that the company's director and president Xu Haoming has resigned.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and "underscored the need to find a political solution to the conflict" in Syria, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here.
U.S. stocks soared on Thursday, with the S&P 500 crossing the landmark level of 1,700 points for the first time, boosted by a batch of upbeat economic data and Federal Reserve reassurance after a two-day policy meeting.
The Egyptian armed forces said late Thursday it avoids taking any exceptional measures against any political group or party in the country, a day after ousting Islamist-oriented President Mohamed Morsi.
Bank of China, the country's leading commercial bank, on Thursday evening denied a media report claiming the bank had defaulted earlier in the day.
U.S. stocks surged on Thursday, propelling the S&P 500 to new record highs, as the country's weekly jobless claims fell to a five-year low and the European Central Bank cut interest rates to a record low.
U.S. stocks continued to retreat Thursday after Wednesday's slump, as weaker-than-expected economic data, soft health care and tech shares weighed on the market.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said the nuclear threat from countries like the DPRK and Iran has increased since cold war and having nuclear deterrent is the best insurance policy.
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