Mukhriz Mahathir, a Malaysian politician and son of the influential former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, resigned as a state chief on Wednesday after losing support of the ruling party.
The 2016 U.S. presidential race formally began Monday in the mid-western state of Iowa, as Iowans were gathering in some 1,681 precincts to make their choices among the candidates in the state's caucuses.
The threats made to Australian schools over the past several days appeared to be hoax calls from overseas "designed to cause unnecessary disruption," local authorities said on Tuesday.
At least 13 students drowned when swimming off a beach in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on Monday, while several others remained missing, said police.
Agitators in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh demanding reservation under backward quota Sunday evening resorted to arson and torched a police station, several vehicles and four bogies of a train, officials said.
Bushfires engulfing Australian Tasmania could have detrimental long-term effects on the state's unique world heritage forests, according to conservationists.
Echoing security concerns as terror threats resurfaced, French President Francois Hollande is seeking lawmakers' approval to extend the state of emergency for another three months.
Australia's highest-ranking state politicians have united behind Prime Minister (PM) Malcolm Turnbull in a bold new campaign to become a republic.
The push to make Australia a republic has gathered pace after all but one of Australia's state and territory leaders signed a historic declaration calling for an Australian head of state.
The authorities have urged residents in the Australian state of Victoria, especially those living in country areas, to be on high alert following a string of recent snake attacks across the state.
Kim Yang Gon, a senior party official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), was killed in a car crash Tuesday, the official news agency KCNA reported Wednesday morning.
The surgery involved removing three-fourths of his stomach and reshaping what was left into a tube to "prevent him from eating too much," the Medical Daily reported in October.
A record number of people from the Australian state of Tasmania are undergoing a medical procedure in order to fight the region's obesity epidemic.
The Australian city of Melbourne is bracing for its hottest December day in five years, with the mercury tipped to climb as high as 40 degrees Celsius at the weekend, heightening fears of a more damaging bushfires.
An Australian state government will partner with Oxford University to set up a state-of-the-art cyber security complex in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria.
Australia's state and territory leaders have agreed with a proposal for indefinite detention of convicted terrorists, a similar measure used for convicted paedophiles unless they can prove they have reformed.
Australia's Prime Minister has on Friday pushed state and territory leaders to back indefinite detention for convicted terrorists, under new laws proposed at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting.
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