Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is another man short in his camp after his long-time policy advisor resigned Wednesday, a day after Ford's stunning confession to using crack cocaine.
U.S. National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander on Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency's spying on European allies are "completely false."
U.S. will discuss its global espionage programme with France, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was quoted as saying on Monday in Paris, after France summoned the U.S. ambassador earlier in the day on spy claims.
U.S. President Barack Obama has always had his detractors among conservative media and the Republican Party (GOP), but now his former employees as well as mainstream media are chiming in, hammering him over his Syria policy.
Turkey has warned its citizens in Egypt to stay away from protests and avoid travelling overland, local media reported on Monday.
Lu Jiuping starts working at 4 a.m. every day, but the retired 50-year-old businessman has never made a cent from his current occupation.
South Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it has asked the United States to confirm media reports of the U.S. intelligence agency's spying on the South Korean embassy.
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the Bank of Japan's monetary easing is aimed at overcoming the country's prolonged deflation and that he will explain the program to Group of 20 financial chiefs later this week in Washington.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that companies can use social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter to announce key information as long as investors have been altered about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.
Three explosive devices went off Tuesday in Syria's capital of Damascus, leaving injuries and property loss, as a broad-based opposition watchdog placed the overall death toll of Syria's 22-month-old crisis at 50,000.
China's official media outlets should learn to play professionally in today's information age as an increasingly picky audience is constantly putting them under the magnifying glasses of public scrutiny.
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