Singaporeans wept on the streets and lined up in their thousands on Wednesday to pay tribute to founding leader Lee Kuan Yew as his flag-draped coffin was transported on a gun carriage to the parliament building for public viewing.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of plotting the Cheonan sinking and using the incident to step up hostility against Pyongyang.
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force took delivery of the biggest warship since World War II, the Izumo, a helicopter carrier as big as the Imperial Navy aircraft carriers that fought the United States in the Pacific in the 1940s.
US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that no reduction of the 9,800 US troops stationed in Afghanistan will occur this year.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi remained in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday after his tribal militia forces were defeated by the Shiite Houthi group in the neighboring Lahj province, a source at the presidential office told Xinhua.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the United States is weighing whether to back Palestinian efforts to seek UN recognition for an independent state, and that recent remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dim hope for a negotiated two-state solution.
The leader of the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday that he's puzzled by reports that Israel spied on negotiators in the closed-door talks over Iran's nuclear program - a claim that Israeli officials deny.
Gripping a semi-automatic rifle in his muscular right hand, anti-poaching instructor Simon Rood berates students for not taking their gun lessons seriously.
Eight slaves from Myanmar sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Two years after a double mastectomy, actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, a move cancer experts described as courageous and influential.
London office workers are coming face to face with history hidden beneath their feet as 3,000 skeletons dating from the 16th century are dug up to make way for a new railway line.
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