Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott came under fire on Friday over controversial comments on the arrest of two terror suspects and for referring to a "holocaust" of job losses, capping a horrible week for the PM.
Indonesia's new president has decided to drop his nominee for national police chief who is under investigation for corruption, palace officials said, in the biggest political test for the leader since taking office.
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, a revered Islamic spiritual leader who helped bolster unity in Malaysia's opposition bloc and was a key advocate of Islamic law, has died. He was 84.
The ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to stage a grand military parade this year to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding and the nation's liberation.
The Republic of Korea announced on Friday a crackdown on illegal brokers and unregistered clinics in a bid to protect medical tourists, especially those drawn by the country's booming plastic surgery industry.
A former adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has praised apartheid as a model for how Japan could expand immigration, prompting the government's top spokesman on Friday to emphasize that Japan's immigration policy is based on equality.
Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Friday he hoped Western sanctions on Moscow could soon be lifted following a cease-fire agreement reached in the Belarusian capital Minsk.
Two Al-Jazeera journalists were released from an Egyptian prison on Friday, after spending more than a year behind bars on terror-related charges in a case denounced as a sham by rights groups and the international community.
Press freedom groups and international news organizations unveiled new safety guidelines to protect freelance journalists on Thursday following a series of high-profile kidnappings and murders in conflict zones.
As thousands of mourners attended the funeral prayers on Thursday for three young Muslims killed in North Carolina, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized US President Barack Obama for his silence following the killings.
A six-day-old premature baby has become the youngest infant to receive a heart transplant at a US hospital, doctors and the infant's proud parents said on Thursday.
Canada confirmed on Friday that it had found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, in a beef cow in the province of Alberta. The case is the first in Canada since 2011. No part of the cow had reached the human food or animal feed systems.
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