Islamic State fighters kept up on Wednesday their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops there and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put a more rapid advance on hold.
The U.S. science-fiction adventure film "Star Trek Beyond" continued to dominate the Chinese film market in the week ending Sept. 11, earning 151 million yuan (22.6 million U.S. dollars), China Film News reported Tuesday.
The United Nations(UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura said Thursday that high-level talks between officials from the United States and Russia working to implement a ceasefire in Syria are ongoing and likely to last until Saturday.
Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, the country's junta chief confirmed yesterday, his first comments since voters backed a new military-crafted Constitution in a referendum.
A referendum victory for Thailand's ruling generals over a new constitution is a "backwards" step for the country, the toppled ex-premier said on Monday (Aug 8) as the democracy movement reels from its first poll defeat in a decade.
Mount Sakurajima erupted early on July 26, belching out a massive column of smoke rising 5,000 meters in the air.
Shares of Japan's Nintendo Co soared more than 20 percent after Friday's surge, adding $7.5 billion to its market value in just two days, on hopes that strong sales of its new Pokemon GO videogame for smartphones will boost earnings.
Asian share markets turned tail on Wednesday as fears over instability in the European Union returned with a vengeance, sending the pound to three-decade lows and hammering risky assets of all stripes.
An overnight storm following days of rain has stopped traffic, cut power and water supplies and trapped people in their homes in many parts of Wuhan, a metropolis on the Yangtze River.
A week-long convulsion in U.S. stocks induced by Britain's vote to leave the European Union has left some on Wall Street feeling a little bit better thanks to stronger expectations of prolonged low interest rates.
The best-loved Britpop-era band in city play AsiaWorld-Expo in August as part of global tour to promote their album Night Thoughts
One month after the introduction of an official reporting requirement for Zika virus, authorities have registered 12 cases of the disease in Germany, local media reported on Wednesday.
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland, said Thursday the upsurge in violence in the war-torn country was not only threatening the lives of countless civilians, but also jeopardizing future peace talks seeking to broker a political end to the five-year crisis.
The European Union (EU) clinched an agreement with Turkey on late Sunday, offering 3 billion euros (3.18 billion U.S. dollars) in aid and more promising access for Ankara's membership to the bloc, to trade for massive reduction of illegal migrant arrivals.
Unidentified militants kidnapped a police officer in Egypt's North Sinai province on Sunday, the state-run MENA news agency reported.
At least 4,707 people have been killed and 10,322 wounded in the violent conflicts in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, the United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic said here Monday.
New Zealand scientists are sharing the genome sequences for both the kiwifruit and a kiwifruit disease that has struck around the world in a bid to control the virus.
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