Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable but still delicate condition more than three weeks after a cancer surgery in Cuba, his son-in-law said on Wednesday.
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara announced Tuesday that a period of national mourning will be held for the victims of the New Year's Eve stampede in Abidjan that claimed 60 lives and caused more than 200 others injured.
About 500 Canadians braved the below freezing temperatures and plunged right into the New Year with an icy dip into Lake Ontario here Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is fully aware of the complexity of his condition three weeks after cancer surgery in Cuba, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized with blood clot, and is being treated with anti-coagulant, her spokesman said Sunday night.
Maduro said that these new complications were caused by respiratory infection that afflicts Chavez for at least two days. He said he had the opportunity to talk to the president to update the country's situation for him listened to his instructions
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang urged more efforts to boost the opening-up and economic progress of poverty-hit areas in central and western China while building a moderately prosperous society.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he saw no reason not to sign into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by U.S. foster families.
The visiting international envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, continued his meetings Wednesday in Syria's capital Damascus in the hope of reaching a solution to the prolonged crisis amid nationwide ongoing violence and clashes.
Little can be done to stop horrific U.S. mass shootings such as last week's killing of 20 children ages 6 and 7, said a leading U.S. expert who consults law enforcement on mass murder cases.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday urged Congress Republicans to come up with a plan that both chambers of the legislature could pass, so as to avert the impending "fiscal cliff."
A number of schools in Fiji's Western Division will be forced to go on with the classes in makeshift tents in 2013 affected by tropical cyclone Evan that hit the country earlier this month, an education official said Friday.
China hopes Japan's new government will work with China to overcome difficulties in bilateral relations, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Non-communist political parties have voiced support for China's multi-party system following a visit by Xi Jinping, the new helmsman of the Communist Party of China.
Bush, 88, who had been hospitalized for about a month with bronchitis, has been in intensive care since Sunday and is now on a liquids-only diet, local TV channel KHOU said.
The British Environment Agency has issued about 160 flood warning for England and Wales, and 31 for Scotland.
Temperatures in the Chinese capital Beijing could plunge to the lowest in almost three decades over the weekend, weather forecasters said Saturday.
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