Thai protesters launch 'final fight'

Thai police on Friday fired tear gas and a water cannon at protesters mounting a "final fight" to topple the embattled government, two days after the prime minister was stripped of office.

Berlusconi begins community service at Alzheimer's hospice

Italy's Silvio Berlusconi began community service for tax fraud on Friday in a spectacular fall from grace for the flamboyant ex-prime minister, who will likely seek political gain from the symbolic punishment.

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'Terror' exiles arrested in Cuba

Miami-based men are suspected of planning attacks on military targets

S. Korea detains head of company in ferry sinking

South Korean prosecutors have detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.

US museum to return statue to Cambodia

The Norton Simon Museum in California has agreed to return a 10th-century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country's genocidal civil war in the 1970s.

WHO report says Delhi has worst air pollution

Indian capital Delhi has the most polluted air in the world, according to a World Health Organization report released on Wednesday that covers 1,600 cities and 91 countries.

Ousted Thai PM indicted, faces ban from politics

Thailand's anti-graft commission indicted ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday on charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a widely criticized rice subsidy program, a day after a court forced her from office.

China: Stop oil rig harassment

Beijing demanded on Thursday that Hanoi cease its harassing actions against a Chinese oil rig in waters off an island in the South China Sea and called for dialogue to end the conflict.

Search for abducted girls gets intl help

World powers, including China and the United States, have joined in the search for the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists who have also killed hundreds in Nigeria's northeast this week.

Eastern Ukrainian cities stick to referendum

The councils of Donetsk and Lugansk in southeastern Ukraine won't postpone referendums on their regions' future as part of Ukraine and will hold them as planned on Sunday, the cities' anti-government activists said.

Polish PM Being cautious

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday he was treating conciliatory comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine crisis with caution.