Russia launched the largest security operation in Olympic history on Tuesday with one month to go before President Vladimir Putin opens the Winter Games in Sochi amid renewed fears of suicide bombings.
Most people around the world are optimistic that 2014 will be better than last year and that the global economy will be stronger, according to a poll.
China called on Monday for an immediate cease-fire in South Sudan and hoped for a reasonable and rational solution from the ongoing peace talks between the government and rebels.
The United States said on Monday it would speed up its deliveries of missiles and surveillance drones to Iraq as the Baghdad government battles a resurgence of al-Qaida-linked militants.
A US judge on Monday sentenced a US woman who called herself Jihad Jane to 10 years in prison - at least a decade less than prosecutors had sought for her role in a failed plot to kill a Swedish artist who had depicted the head of the Muslim prophet Mohammad on a dog.
Australia turned a boat carrying asylum-seekers back to Indonesia last month, the first time Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government has implemented a new immigration policy in a move that further strained ties between the neighbors.
Japan has to rid itself of the "demon" of militarism to regain trust from the international community, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after the war of words between the neighbors escalated, even embroiling a fictional Harry Potter villain.
The secretariat of Japan's National Security Council was launched on Tuesday to help the country's top defense policymakers coordinate teamwork within and outside Japan.
Even as many Chinese have begun to make travel plans for the Spring Festival holiday, tourism sector insiders said Chinese tourists' interest in Japan remains stagnant due to the two countries' political tensions.
The people of this peaceful village at the foot of the Slovak mountains vented their anger by electing as their regional governor a man who calls his Roma compatriots "parasites" and admires a wartime figure who collaborated with the Nazis.
Millions of people across the United States made last minute preparations on Monday for an unusually bitter Arctic blast that could send temperatures plummeting to their coldest in 20 years.
The president of the Republic of Korea has called for the enhancement of mutual trust with China and the strengthening of the friendship between the two countries, to improve people's welfare and jointly contribute to peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
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