Shinzo Abe won endorsement on Wednesday to serve another term as prime minister after winning a renewed mandate from the electorate for his "Abenomics" strategies to revive the world's third-biggest economy.
The British government and Northern Ireland's political parties on Tuesday reached an agreement on the region's political and economic future after nearly three months of intensive talks.
The death toll in rebel violence in Assam has risen to 52 with the discovery of more bodies, police officials in the remote northeastern Indian state said on Wednesday.
Fragile peace talks aimed at ending the civil conflict between the government and rebels in Ukraine resumed on Wednesday, a day after Kiev angered Moscow by taking a historic step toward NATO.
Former US president George H.W. Bush, 90, has been admitted to a Houston hospital suffering shortness of breath, a family spokesman said.
South African President Jacob Zuma has hinted he may be ready to take a fifth wife to accompany him through old age, The Star newspaper said on Wednesday.
Editor's Note: As people around the world celebrate Christmas Day, China Daily takes a look at some of the traditional and not-so-traditional ways the festive season is marked in different countries; in hot and cold climates.
Ten years after the deadliest tsunami on record wrought destruction across the Indian Ocean, creeping complacency is undermining a high-tech warning system designed to prevent another disaster of such shocking magnitude.
Internet access resumed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Tuesday morning after a few hours of outage that came amid bickering between the United States and the DPRK over an earlier cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Republic of Korea President Park Geunhye said on Tuesday that her government will continue efforts for dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and promised to actively prepare for future reunification of the two neighbors beginning next year.
The military of the Republic of Korea plans to set up a new team in charge of cyberoperations in January under the wing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing military officials.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday that security officials had intercepted a heightened level of terrorist "chatter" in the aftermath of the Sydney cafe siege.
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