Three Federal Reserve policymakers on Thursday expressed the view that there was no hurry to raise U.S. interest rates in the wake of the UK decision to leave the European Union, despite signs that the U.S. economy is near full employment.
Twenty-five passengers were injured after an explosion hit a commuter train in Taipei on Thursday night, said the city's fire department early Friday.
Sweltering heat in parts of China over the past two days have left sweaty residents stuck at home or driven them to the pool or even bomb shelters to keep cool.
Both sides in Britain's referendum battle over EU membership halted their campaign Thursday afternoon after Labour Party member of parliament (MP) Jo Cox died after being gunned down and stabbed.
Death toll from a leisure boat capsizing in southwest China's Sichuan Province rose to 10 after more bodies were found, rescuers said on Thursday.
The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) chose a new leadership team at its 9th national congress, which concluded on Thursday.
The Chinese military sent a specialist medical team to Mali on Thursday to join Chinese peacekeepers there and help deal with casualties from a Tuesday terrorist attack.
The Egyptian Armed Forces said in a statement on Friday it had found parts of debris from the missing EgyptAir plane 290 kilometers north of the coastal city of Alexandria.
France's air accident investigation agency BEA said on Thursday that it is sending three experts "in the coming hours" to help establish the causes of EgyptAir plane's disappearance.
Nigerien teachers on Thursday began a 48-hour strike across the entire national territory over what their union, SYNACEB, said was the refusal by the government to satisfactorily respond to their demands.
Eight suspects have been detained by Turkish police over Thursday's car bombing attack in Istanbul that wounded eight people, Turkish media reported on Friday.
Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer on Thursday signed a Senate notice promoting him to acting president, after lawmakers voted to open impeachment proceedings against suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
Myanmar President-elect U Htin Kyaw will submit a list of nominees for cabinet posts to the Union Parliament on Thursday for approval, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) confirmed Monday.
The 18th ASEAN-India Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) is taking place in Vietnam's capital Hanoi from Thursday to Friday, a Vietnamese official announced on Thursday.
Myanmar's parliamentary House of Representatives (Lower House) has passed an urgent motion calling on the government to support mass participation in fight against drugs, according to an official report Friday.
A new cancer drug, tested for the first time by Melbourne researchers, has proved extremely effective in killing cancerous blood cells.
Chinese cities are ready to ensure the warmth of every resident, from homeless vagrants to zoo animals, in face of what could be the coldest week in decades.
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