The UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the establishment of a Palestinian state by late 2017.
South Korean prosecutors have arrested a former Korean Air Lines Co executive for allegedly endangering flight safety by delaying a plane because her macadamia nuts were not served the way she wanted, officials said on Wednesday.
At least 21 people have been killed and eight others are missing after the worst flooding in decades across Malaysia's northeast, police said on Wednesday, with almost a quarter of a million people displaced.
Most Australian states and territories are set to ban commercial sunbeds from Thursday, in a crackdown on artificial tanning in a country that has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
Some of the relatives and friends of affected passengers aboard the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 arrived at the designated relatives' area at Singapore's Changi Airport for updates on Sunday.
On my way to Surabaya where most of the passengers are from as with my Indonesian management. Providing information as we get it."
Malaysian mogul Tony Fernandes, who transformed a floundering carrier into Asia's biggest budget airline, faces his first major crisis after an AirAsia plane disappeared on Sunday with 162 people on board.
The skies were clear in Malaysia late in the evening of March 7 as Hou Aiqin passed through the security checks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. She was due to take Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, bound for Beijing, scheduled to take off at 1:41 am minutes on March 8.
The continued fall in global crude oil prices has triggered another cut in domestic retail fuel prices, with the nation's top economic planning agency saying that the revised prices will come into effect on Saturday.
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