The ongoing militancy and conflicts have claimed the lives of eight people including an ISAF service member in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan on Friday.
Plans by a forestry cooperative to harvest a "wall of wood" have sparked fresh fears in the run-up to next month's election that New Zealand's productive assets are being taken over by foreign interests.
"Welcome aboard China's train of development!" Xi Jinping, president of the world's second largest economy, told Mongolian lawmakers on Friday.
Top Thai ruler Gen. Prayuth Chan- ocha, who has been unanimously chosen Thursday as Thailand's 29th prime minister by the interim legislature, will likely stay in power for only a year during which time the reforms in government that the military has initiated would have taken effect.
The border guards of India and Pakistan Friday fired on each other's positions on international border (IB) in Kashmir, officials said.
China's central government is resolute and sincere in realizing universal suffrage in Hong Kong's chief executive election in 2017, a senior official of the Chinese mainland said on Friday.
Over 191,000 people were reportedly killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2014, according to an updated United Nations study released on Friday.
If you have visited the majestic National Museum of Singapore in the daytime, come again at night. You'll be surprised to find that the nation's oldest museum has turned into a giant earth harp under the magic hands of American artist William Close.
Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)'s lead campaign coordinator quit Thursday after its presidential candidate was officially changed, causing an internal rift as the election is only 45 days away.
Chinese government agencies are slowly turning mobile messaging application WeChat into a platform to interact with the people.
A special plane carrying the remains of 20 Malaysian victims killed on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived Friday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport from Amsterdam, as Malaysia marked a national day of mourning.
Vietnam's national air carrier Vietnam Airlines will open direct flights from Phu Quoc Island in southern Kien Giang province to Cambodia and Singapore from November this year, Vietnam's government portal reported Friday.
Demonstrations against the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson,Missouri, gradually quiet down, but mistrust and disbelief prevailed.
The Economist magazine this week named Vancouver as the world' s third most liveable city, only after Australia's Melbourne and Austria's Vienna.
At least 33 people were killed and over 40 others seriously wounded in the early hours of Friday as two buses collided on a highway some 50 km away from Red Sea resort city Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt's South Sinai province, a security source told Xinhua.
Government agencies in New Zealand and Japan are seeking to strengthen joint research into " functional foods" with government funding, New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) announced Friday.
Australian firefighters have saved a koala's life by giving it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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