The Australian government has offered law enforcement and intelligence assistance to Indonesia following the deadly attacks in Jakarta Thursday, Australian Attorney-General George Brandis announced.
U.S. stocks slumped for a second straight day on Thursday, as global markets rout and falling oil prices continued to weigh on Wall Street.
Indian-controlled Kashmir's Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away Thursday morning after a brief illness
Former FIFA vice president Eugenio Figueredo was held in jail pending trial in his native country Uruguay Thursday after being extradited from Switzerland.
U.S. stocks posted solid gains Thursday, as investor sentiment was buoyed by dovish remarks from European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi.
The U.S. dollar increased against most major currencies on Thursday as investors were digesting the better-than-expected jobless data from the country as well as the outcome of the just-concluded European Central Bank (ECB) meeting.
Afghan security forces, after three days of Taliban presence in Kunduz city, launched counter- offensive late Wednesday night and recaptured the city early Thursday, officials said.
U.S. stocks finished mixed after wavering around flatline in a narrow range Thursday, as Wall Street digested a slew of economic data.
As of 11 a.m. Thursday, the air quality remained normal in the region near the warehouse which was destroyed by blasts Wednesday night, the city's environmental bureau said.
Sixty-five people are still missing since a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company in northwest China's Shaanxi Province early Wednesday, local authorities confirmed on Thursday.
The adjustment to close the gap between central parity rate and actual trading rate of Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, has basically completed, an official of the People's Bank of China said Thursday at a press conference. Enditem
The plane wreckage found on the Reunion Island will be transferred to Toulouse to be analysed by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA), reported Thursday the newspaper Le Figaro.
U.S. stocks declined for the third straight session Thursday as investors meditated on a raft of largely lackluster earnings reports.
Typhoon Linfa made landfall on Thursday in south China's Guangdong Province, where trains have been suspended, schools closed and thousands of fishing boats recalled to port.
Offices and schools across northern Taiwan, including Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan and Keelung, will be closed Friday in anticipation of the heavy rain and strong winds brought by Typhoon Chan-Hom.
China's securities watchdog announced late Thursday it will investigate suspected manipulation of the stock market as experts fail to explain worst collapse in years.
South Korea on Thursday reported one more case of infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ( MERS) and two deaths, bringing the total contagion cases to 180 and the death toll to 29, the health ministry said.
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