The mayor of Nagasaki urged Japanese leaders on Sunday to dispel the public's concerns over proposed government-backed national security bills by conducting "careful and sincere deliberations".
Singapore marked 50 years of independence on Sunday with nationwide celebrations, including a huge military parade and firework display that will pay tribute to former founding leader Lee Kuan Yew.
Malian authorities sought on Sunday to identify the perpetrators of a hotel siege in the central town of Sevare that ended with the deaths of at least 12 people, including five UN workers.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution creating an investigative team to determine to the "greatest extent feasible" who was responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
At least 30 boats of all sizes paraded across Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay on Saturday to protest contamination in the waters where sailing events will take place next year during the Olympic Games.
In a minutelong video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the waterfront promenade in the kingdom's Red Sea city of Jeddah as a group of young men jeer and follow them until the women become visibly agitated.
After work on a recent Friday, 53-year-old Lee Jin-soo headed for the Happy Guys Cooking Class, where he joined six other mostly middle-aged men in tall white hats and aprons.
Bombastic, comical, provocative: Donald Trump, the billionaire leading the Republican primary race, offered the best and worst of himself on Thursday as opponents strained to offer more gravitas in the first major debate of the 2016 election campaign.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Friday it will establish its own time zone next week by pushing back its current standard time by 30 minutes.
A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy relationship between its growing black population and its mostly white police force barely registered in local headlines.
US Secretary of State John Kerry extolled the virtues of reconciling with former enemies on Friday as he marked the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam.
NASA has renewed a contract with Russia's space agency for $490 million to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station for lack of Congressional funding, the US agency said on Wednesday.
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