New Zealand's opposition Labor Party leader David Shearer resigned as the party leader on Thursday.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had improperly collected thousands of emails from Americans with no ties to terrorism over three years before a special court ruled it unconstitutional, according to court opinions declassified by intelligence officials on Wednesday.
The New Zealand government announced Monday that its investigation into the Fonterra contamination crisis would look at the causes of and the official response to the botulism scare.
Another New Zealand milk product was found to be contaminated after being dispatched for export to China, but New Zealand officials said Monday that none of the products had reached consumers.
Many office buildings in the New Zealand capital have been closed pending engineer inspections after a series of powerful earthquakes shook central New Zealand Friday.
In spite of winning three sets in a row, Argentina female volleyball team well tested China's toughness and versatility.
Former Thai leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and his former deputy Suthep Thuagsuban will be officially charged for alleged involvement in the killing of several unarmed people during 2010's army crackdowns on Red Shirt protesters in the Thai capital, according to a high-level government official on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday had lunch with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the White House said the meeting was "chiefly social," denying they were discussing prospects for Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman on Monday ordered the New Zealand military to review its defense orders after it was revealed that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) regarded the country's investigative journalists as a subversion "threat".
Speculation that fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden had been granted approval to leave Sheremetyevo airport's transit zone was quashed by his lawyer Wednesday.
Thirty-nine employees of a hospital in south China's Guangdong Province will be punished for taking illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said Tuesday.
The death toll has climbed to 89, with 5 others still unaccounted for, in an earthquake that hit northwest China's Gansu Province Monday morning, local authorities said.
The deaths of at least 22 schoolchildren in a massive food poisoning case in the eastern Indian state of Bihar could be caused by deliberate poisoning, said a local official Thursday.
Bank of China, the country's leading commercial bank, on Thursday evening denied a media report claiming the bank had defaulted earlier in the day.
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to officially nominate former Deputy Attorney General James Comey to replace Robert Mueller as next director of the FBI, U.S. media quoted White House officials as saying on Thursday.
New Zealand's capital Wellington was cleaning up Friday after one of the worst storms in decades smashed roads, cut air links and left thousands of homes without power, while other parts of the country were dealing with snow and floods.
The United States will not rush to war in Syria as it did in the past in the region, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
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