Four former officials of a hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province where an obstetrician was accused of trafficking seven babies went on trial Monday for dereliction of duty.
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak was brought back to a Cairo criminal court, as former chief of staff of the armed forces Sami Anan will testify over charges against Mubarak, state-run Al Ahram website reported on Sunday.
The family of a 17-year-old student who committed suicide after he was physically punished a year ago by a former teacher filed a lawsuit on Wednesday for more than 165 million yen (about 1.60 million U.S. dollars) in damage against Osaka City, which runs the school he was attending, local media reported.
Pakistan has freed three more senior Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban to nearly fifty in one year, official sources said late Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, to luminaries including former President Bill Clinton, talkshow host Oprah Winfrey, as well as posthumously to former senator Daniel Inouye and first female astronaut of the country Sally Ride.
An Egyptian court on Monday decided to adjourn the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak to Nov. 16 after three-day closed-door sessions to hear testimony of several former top security officials, state-TV reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama is to nominate current Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next Fed chief on Wednesday, media reports said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama is to nominate current Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next Fed chief on Wednesday, media reports said Tuesday.
An Athens court sentenced on Monday evening Greek former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos to twenty years imprisonment for money laundering and receiving kickbacks from state armaments' purchases in one of the country's most prominent corruption scandals to be brought before justice in recent years.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged two former executives of China-based ChinaCast Education Corporation with fraud and insider trading.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate has decided to put two provincial-level officials under investigation for alleged bribery.
Two more senior officials at provincial level were expelled from the Party and removed from their posts for involvement in corruption, following the investigation of a ministerial official earlier this week.
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Asia's largest oil and gas producer, confirmed on Thursday that it has decided to remove its four senior executives under investigation for "serious violations of discipline" from their posts.
Nepal's two former Prime Ministers (PMs) objected to former King Gyanendra Shah's visits to different parts of the country, saying he was trying to disrupt the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls to be held in November this year.
Twenty-two Taliban militants surrendered in the western Afghan province of Herat, the provincial governor said.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela's health has improved but he remains in a critical condition, the Presidency said on Thursday.
The funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was held Wednesday in London, with some of the bitter divisions in British society that are a part of her legacy played out as her hearse went past waiting crowds, as well as a respectful and occasionally passionate farewell from many who lined the route of the funeral procession.
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