The Italian cabinet approved a constitutional reform draft bill on Monday to turn the Senate into a smaller and non-elected assembly.
Four Islamist militants were arrested on Saturday night after armed clash with security forces, Tunisia' s national news agency TAP reported.
A family of four died in a house fire in east China's Zhejiang Province on Wednesday night, local authorities said Thursday.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta's cabinet won an expected confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, proving a more solid majority for his reform plans.
Four people were killed by fire at a residential house in Japan's Chiba City, local police and firefighters said.
The speakers and presiding officers of legislatures in the Commonwealth group of nations will gather in New Zealand next month to discuss their parliamentary systems
British government will levy foreign property owners on selling homes that are not their primary residence, Finance Minister George Osborne announced on Thursday in his autumn budget statement.
The 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has charted a course for the country's development.Among dozens of reform plans, rural land reform is considered close to the top of the agenda. CNC brings you a new kind of land exchange system in southwest China.
Three women who had been working as slaves for some 30 years were rescued in a south London house Thursday morning, according to local media reports.
A hostage situation in Reuver, a town in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, ended Thursday with the death of the hostage-taker and his three-year-old daughter, Dutch police said.
New Zealand's house price bubble and rising accommodation costs might be worse than previously thought with a new government-funded study on Monday showing about one in every 120 people, an estimated total of 34, 000, had no access to housing in 2006.
For 71-year-old Li Yuzhen, a life taking care of a sick husband and a mentally-disabled son in their two-bedroom apartment in the east China city of Hefei has not been easy.
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak attended a trial Sunday on charges of inciting violence and murdering protesters, state-TV reported.
Czech lawmakers on Tuesday voted to dissolve the lower house of parliament, paving the way for an early election possibly to be held in late October.
The unconstitutionality of elections in Japan have once again come to the fore as a consortium of lawyers plans to nullify the results of the July 21 Upper House election, local media reported Wednesday.
At least six people were killed, 45 got injured in a suicide car attack on Balochistan province 's police chief house in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Sunday night, reported local media Dawn.
China's history stretching back thousands of years has seen the migration of people and mixing of ethnicities.
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