Austria has decided to participate in the establishment of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) , a foreign minister spokesperson told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Illegal poachers of dugongs and turtles in northern Australia now face fines up to 750,000 U.S. dollars as the federal government shores up its protection of endangered species.
Amid a closely-contested presidential election, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has moved out of his official residence, an official said on Friday.
Ved Prakash Vaidik, a New Delhi-based journalist, who kicked up row in India for meeting Pakistan's Jamat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan Tuesday, triggered another controversy for his independent Kashmir remarks.
Casualties were feared as a car bombing went off Monday morning close to a NATO- led coalition military base in Zharay district of southern Afghan province of Kandahar
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he would soon pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of the oil company Yukos.
Australian embassies are part of a U.S.-led global spying network and are being secretly used to intercept calls and data across Asia, local media reported on Thursday.
About 100 police officers raided two communities belonging to a Christian sect in the southern German state of Bavaria on Thursday and removed 40 children due to evidence of ongoing child abuse.
Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi did not make a mistake, brother of Morsi, Saeed Mohamed Morsi, told Xinhua on Thursday in an exclusive interview.
A suicide car bomb went off near a NATO base in Naw Zad district in southern Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday evening, causing casualties.
A Chinese private fishing boat seized by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) side was released early Tuesday, a Chinese consular officer to the DPRK told Xinhua.
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