The United Nations cultural body on Saturday condemned what it said was the destruction of the ancient city of Hatra in Iraq by the Islamic State jihadist group.
With a nod to ongoing US racial tensions, US President Barack Obama declared on Saturday the work of the civil rights movement advanced but unfinished.
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied at a square in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, calling for the replacement of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the country's March 17 elections.
Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.
The registration-based system for initial public offerings, a key driver of the nation's capital market reform, is likely to be implemented this year and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is getting ready to handle the responsibility, the bourse's Chairman Gui Minjie said on Friday in Beijing.
The nation can achieve its GDP growth target of "around 7 percent" this year without any risk of a systemic financial crisis, said members of the country's top political advisory body on Friday.
Industry insiders anticipate eased policies covering the realty market after the Government Work Report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday featured a softer tone on the industry.
US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Mark Lippert was recovering from surgery on Thursday after his face and arm were slashed by a knife-wielding activist opposed to ongoing US-ROK military drills.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday suggested the search for missing Flight MH370 may be scaled back, while expressing hope the jet would be found a year after it vanished.
A Singapore court sentenced two Germans to nine months in prison and three strokes of the cane on Thursday after they pleaded guilty to breaking into a train depot and spray-painting graffiti on a commuter carriage.
Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said on Thursday.
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