Moscow on Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict- torn Syria, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid.
Indian police on Monday detained Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while he was on his way to protest outside Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's office in the national capital.
Wei Renhua, a shy fourth-grader in southwest China's rural region of Guangxi, does not know his parents' names. Wei's mum and dad spend just two or three short vacations at home each year, otherwise leaving the boy with his grandparents while they struggle for city work.
Wei Renhua, a shy fourth-grader in southwest China's rural region of Guangxi, does not know his parents' names. Wei's mum and dad spend just two or three short vacations at home each year, otherwise leaving the boy with his grandparents while they struggle for city work.
Canada Post on Monday unveiled a collection of Year of the Horse stamps to usher in the Chinese Lunar New Year, which will start on Jan. 31. The stamps, the seventh issue in a 12-year series, are part of a popular commemorative stamp program Canada Post has been running for the past 18 years.
Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said an increase in abuse directed at courts and judges because of decisions is a worrying sign.
Mixed race people tend to be more attractive because their faces are more "face-like" than single-race people and fail to fall into an obvious racial category, according to a New Zealand-U.S. study.
Infants who can't yet speak themselves are able to recognize that people who speak different languages use words differently, according to New Zealand research.
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.
A new report suggests a quarter of New Zealand's children are living in poverty and 10 percent are in severe poverty.
Corporate Australia has come out in support this week, in the wake of a new list of global universities with the most millionaire alumni, with praise of Australia's top ranked university, University of NSW, and its strategy of focusing on delivering work/life skills.
Dutch Minister of Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk on Wednesday night revealed he received a letter from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) confirming the monitoring of mail and phone traffic in the Netherlands.
More than 1,000 insurance claims have been made by people who lost their homes and properties in the New South Wales (NSW) bushfires, with the bill estimated at 138 million AU dollars (132.58 million U.S. dollars), the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said on Friday.
Investors finally showed some nervousness Tuesday towards the ongoing fiscal wrangling in Washington, as the partial government shutdown drags on into a second week and the debt ceiling deadline is looming large, eroding market confidence.
A trial of a renowned Chinese tenor's teenage son, accused of gangrape, ended on Thursday at a Beijing district court.
A survey by the Chinese Health Ministry has revealed that China's ban on smoking in indoor public spaces has been mostly ignored.
The Conference Board Chief Economist Bart van Ark and Andrew Polk, resident economist at its China Center for Economics and Business, said on Monday that it is important for China to put more emphasis on quality growth rather than speed.