Northern Territory (NT) Chief Minister Adam Giles is back in charge of his government on Wednesday a day after a coup leader declared he had been deposed.
Italian parliament elected 73-year-old constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella as new president on Saturday.
Authorities in the U.S. State of Maryland said Wednesday a deadly fire at a residential mansion in the state's Annapolis last week was caused by a dry Christmas tree, causing six deaths, including four children,
The Nigerian government on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in 11 states.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday gave her closing statement for an impeachment trial over a rice-pledging scheme, calling for a fair verdict.
The suspect in the shooting of two Canadian police officers in Western Canada's province of Alberta was dead, the police announced on Saturday.
For years, the preference for traditional home deliveries in Tibet have pushed up the region's infant mortality rate (IMR), but improved maternal care has reversed the trend.
A total of 680 fugitives suspected of economic crimes have been repatriated to China as a result of the transnational "Fox Hunt" operation launched in July, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
Greece's Christodoulos Xiros, the fugitive convicted member of the November 17 group who had gone missing in January 2014, was arrested in an Athens suburb on Saturday, Greek Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias was quoted as saying.
Indonesian rescuers searching for the missing AirAsia plane had spotted six bodies and pulled three from waters off the southern coast of Kalimantan island, Indonesia 's rescue regency said here on Tuesday.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday that his administration had intensified efforts to modernize and transform the nation's railway system for national prosperity and development.
Four bodies have been found on Monday by rescuers in the sea area off Corfu island near the Italian ferry Norman Atlantic which was adrift since early Sunday after a fire started at the garage, Greek Shipping Minister Militiadis Varvitsiotis said.
A mass grave with the remains of 70 people, who had been killed by the Islamic State (IS) militants at an earlier time, was uncovered Monday in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the state news agency SANA reported.
The air searching for a missing AirAsia plane suspended on Monday evening due to darkness in the waters near the Bangka Belitung islands and will resume early Monday morning, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said.
Over 1,200 members of a former rebel group of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fled their detention camp in western Uganda and sought UN protection, the Ugandan army said.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday questioned why the gunman responsible for the tragic Sydney siege was not on a security watchlist.
Nigeria's police in central north state of Plateau on Thursday said two explosions went off in quick succession in the capital city.
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