Malaysia's worst flooding in decades forced more than 105,000 people to flee as Prime Minister Najib Razak came under fire after photos showed him golfing with US President Barack Obama during the storms.
The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group in Syria pleaded for his son's release on Thursday, asking the group to treat him well in captivity as a fellow Muslim.
The year 2014 was marked by brutal deadly attacks in Pakistan, the deadliest of which occurred on Dec 16 in the northwestern city of Peshawar where at least 132 school children and nine staff members were killed and another 125 people, mostly young students, injured.
US President Barack Obama marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying tribute to the US military, telling troops on Christmas Day that their sacrifices have allowed a more peaceful, prosperous world to emerge out of the ashes of Sept 11, 2001.
Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday, leading to an exchange of gunfire between militants and soldiers that killed at least nine people, including three soldiers, an official with the mission in Somalia said.
After an hourlong trek through mine shafts twisting 700 meters below ground level, Yevgeny Kachel lies on his stomach as he plows a drill into a seam of coal.
The foreign ministry of Belarus, which has been hosting Ukraine peace talks, says the much-anticipated round of negotiations on Friday has been scrapped.
Europe will be "vulnerable" if it does not regard viruses as a "national security issue" like the United States, the microbiologist who discovered Ebola said in an interview published on Friday.
The Indian Army on Friday said that it would intensify its operations against Bodo militants, who killed over 80 people in the northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday.
It was just before 8 am on Dec 26, 2004. The sky was blue, and Jamaliah was hanging clothes on the line while her three kids were inside watching TV on a sleepy Sunday. In a second, everything changed.
As towering waves hit the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Dec 26, 2004, Kushil Gunasekera gathered up his children and ran for their lives to a nearby temple, the highest point they could find.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea says it likely will have no "physical reaction", just condemnation, to the release of the film The Interview, which depicts the fictional assassination of top leader Kim Jong-un.
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