The Pacific island nations are looking well-prepared for a possibly worse-than-usual cyclone season despite countries such as Tonga coping with a drought after a dry year, a senior New Zealand Red Cross official said Monday.
Zhao Yuxian always refers to himself as a "hunter", even though his prey doesn't originate on Earth.
The West has no other choice but to lift the "cruel" sanctions against the Islamic republic, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said here on Monday.
Ragged clothes, a tragic story and a begging bowl: beggars are not unusual sites in busy city squares or subway trains. But are they quite what they seem? Some could be richer than you.
The Australian Senate has passed sweeping changes to the country's immigration laws, including the re-introduction of the Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Friday.
The three co-initiators of Hong Kong's Occupy movement turned themselves in to the police on Wednesday afternoon.
Nepal, which has around 3 percent of its population of 27 million who are considered persons with disabilities (PWDs), has been lagging behind other countries in ensuring their rights and privileges.
Imagine how a nine-year-old child with potential brain cancer might feel when he is led into an MRI machine. Imagine his reaction as a series of loud bangs echoes around him as he sits with a white plastic tube just inches away from his face. He cannot sit up, cannot wiggle, cannot move at all, or it will compromise the integrity of the test.
Japanese politicians have recently expressed growing concern about the rising numbers of a section of society aged roughly between 15 and 34 known both in Japan and globally by the acronym NEET (Not In Education, Employment or Training), as the government desperately tries to reboot the employment market as part of its bid to yank the world's third- largest economy out of recession and back on a recovery path.
A breakaway faction of Nepal's CPN- Maoist, which is led by youth leader Netra Bikram Chand, has announced the formation of a new party, the faction leader said on Monday.
Young Australians are concerned their career dreams for the future may be out of reach, according to the country's biggest annual poll of young people that was released on Monday.
The U.S. Congress and the White House are expected to come out swinging on a number of hot-button issues after midterm elections this month shifted the control of the Congress to the Republican Party (GOP).
China and Australia entered a new era of mutually beneficial interaction on Monday as they embraced an epochal, twin upgrade of bilateral cooperation.
U.S. researchers who sequenced the genomes of the world's oldest living people said Wednesday they were unable to find a genetic recipe significantly associated with extreme longevity.
A team of Japanese scientists have developed a flying rescue robot with a device that can open doors to enter buildings hit by earthquakes or accidents, the Nikkei reported Friday.
Singapore's first luxury pet hotel, The Wagington, will open its gate in mid-November to pamper its pet guests with a host of superb services.
A group of three men wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit, a motorbike helmet and a Muslim niqab calling for a nationwide ban on burqas have attempted to enter Australia's Parliament House.
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