DPRK appears to have restarted its nuclear facility at Yongbyon, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah graced the Royal tea party held in conjunction with his birthday celebrations at Istana Negara.
Partial results in Peru's presidential election give former World Bank executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a narrow lead.
One person is confirmed dead after massive storms flooded rivers, uprooted trees and tore into beaches along Australia's east coast.
A veteran US photojournalist and a translator have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.
The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world's best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix in Arizona state after being admitted on Thursday.
Almost exactly two years ago, Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul, was overrun by the forces of so-called Islamic State (IS).But since then, the city's university, has remained open most of the time.
On Friday, 14 students in eastern India's Bihar who topped school examinations will face three teachers in an office in the state capital, Patna, to be retested.
Wildlife authorities in Thailand have said they will press charges against a Buddhist temple where the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs were found.
The US, UK and France have urged the UN to begin air drops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas in Syria.
In India, drinking alcohol is primarily an outdoor sport played at night.The dark and the bottle go together. Even some upmarket bars have the lighting turned down low and the windows shuttered.
"The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists," the State Department said.
The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested he tried to derail an investigation into the state oil company, Petrobras.
Anyone who's followed politics for any length of time knows no party's more prone to suicidal bouts of indiscipline than the Labour Party.
Predictions about this year's US presidential campaign are a mug's game, but here is one that can be made with some confidence; the next president will be a declared opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the sweeping 12-nation trade agreement which the US signed in February.
Illegal immigrants in the US often get better care than the nation's military veterans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said.
More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine.
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