A Germanwings flight in Cologne/Bonn airport was canceled after it received a bomb threat, the airline announced on Sunday.
A rift is widening dramatically between Japan's central government and local officials and citizens in Okinawa Prefecture following an order by its governor for the defense bureau to halt drilling at the site of a planned new U.S. military base in a coastal region on the island being overturned and sparking protests in the region.
Chinese authorities have shut down 66 illegally built golf courses, according to a statement from the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) on Monday.
The South Korean government reportedly plans to make an official announcement in the near future of its decision to join the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Nigeria's Security Council on Tuesday gave a vote of confidence on the military following the successful anti-terrorism operations in the restive northeast region, an officer said.
At least 43 people possibly died and several others were wounded after a tourist bus plunged 400 meters into a ravine in Santa Catarina province in southern Brazil Saturday afternoon, according to local GLOBO website.
China's national legislators adopted a revision to the Legislation Law Sunday, as the country is unfurling an ambitious legal reform.
The city of Wenzhou is at the last step of a two-decade persistent pursuit as a draft revision to the Legislation Law expands legislative power from 49 Chinese cities to at least 284 nationwide.
At least 10 people were killed Monday afternoon when two helicopters crashed in midair in Argentina's northwest province of La Rioja, local media reported.
The number of people affected by the record-high flood in Acre River in the northern Brazilian state of Acre reached 87,000, local authorities said Wednesday.
Twenty people have been confirmed dead and 13 others were injured after a coach fell off a cliff in early Tuesday morning in Linzhou City, central China's Henan Province, said local government.
For farmers and herders around Changtang nature reserve in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, there are two sides to the wildlife coin.
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shelved scheduled inauguration of a temple dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his home province Gujarat after his party suffered a devastating defeat in the capital last week, local media reported Thursday.
At least two people have been confirmed dead, with 65 others including seven Chinese injured, in a car pileup accident on Yeongjong Grand Bridge in Incheon, west of South Korea's capital Seoul, local media reported Wednesday.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others injured in a coach collision in Vietnam's central Binh Thuan province early Monday.
Francine Nayituriki, a mother of five from Ruhango, a district located at around 80 kilometers from Kigali in the Southern Rwanda, has at several attempts risked arrest for straying into the nearby forests to fetch wood for cooking, after the East African nation decide to enforce the law by bringing to justice those involved in cutting down trees.
Francine Nayituriki, a mother of five from Ruhango, a district located at around 80 kilometers from Kigali in the Southern Rwanda, has at several attempts risked arrest for straying into the nearby forests to fetch wood for cooking, after the East African nation decide to enforce the law by bringing to justice those involved in cutting down trees.