The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday warned of escalating food crisis in South Sudan in 2017, saying economic downturn and insecurity have further crippled food production and trade.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday agreed to cooperate in nuclear and economic fields.
Canadian singer Michael Buble and his Argentinian actress wife Luisana Lopilato said on Facebook last Friday that their three-year-old son has cancer and that they are putting their careers on hold to help him. They did not say what kind of cancer their son is suffering from. They have a second son, born in January.
A catering company in Chongqing recently announced plans to delay paying its employees' salaries until next month, in an effort to curb the potential excesses of shopaholics on Alibaba’s Nov. 11 online shopping festival.
South Korea's retail and tourism industries are seeking ways to embrace a growing number of independent travelers from China with customized services as Beijing is set to tighten regulations on cheap package tours, industry officials said Monday.
Thailand will go back to being Southeast Asia’s entertainment hub mid-November when the 30-day prohibition on nightlife, TV shows and festivals in wake of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s death ends on Nov 14.
Two strong earthquakes rocked central Italy on Wednesday, toppling buildings and injuring dozens of people according to initial reports, two months after a devastating tremor killed nearly 300 in the same region.
More than half of married people in their 30s and 40s are unsure how much their spouses earn, a study suggests.
A steel ladder will soon replace a rickety rattan structure used by children and other residents of a remote mountaintop village in Southwest China to traverse an 800-meter cliff to reach the outside world.
Japan’s Constitution promises gender equality, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants a society where all women can “shine.” But many women say that is hard to do when they cannot even use their own surnames.
Heavy rains brought flooding to parts of Hong Kong this week, but that was not enough not to stop one elderly man from enjoying his newspaper and coffee.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in Beijing to warm up his country's ice-cold ties with China. The move has nothing to do with Manila's traditional alliance with Washington.
The first parliamentary elections in Britain since the June 23 EU referendum take place this week to find MPs to replace former prime minister David Cameron and slain Labour politician Jo Cox.
You’d think managing Britain’s exit from the European Union would be enough to keep Theresa May busy. But it seems the U.K.’s prime minister wants to design a whole new kind of conservatism as well -- one that works not just for Britain’s frequent-flyer elite but also, as she puts it, for “the whole nation.”
The European Union (EU) is considering giving free continental railway tickets to European teenagers for their 18th birthday to impress the youth with their neighbors' charm and make them love the bloc better.
The future of the peace process in Colombia is now uncertain as the No camp took a razor-thin lead Sunday in a national vote on whether to accept the agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Facebook (FB.O) said it would appeal against an order by a German privacy regulator on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp and to delete all data that has already been forwarded to it.
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