Around 400 elderly people from the Republic of Korea met privately on Wednesday with relatives in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea they had not seen for more than 60 years, on the second day of a highly charged reunion for families torn apart by the Korean War.
Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorizing the use of chemical castration to punish pedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child sex crimes.
The Slovenian Parliament passed legislation early on Wednesday that will give the army more power to help police guard the state border as thousands of migrants flood into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off its border. The new legislation will enable the soldiers to control the border when there are no police present.
Justin Trudeau, a young and handsome outdoorsman and former bartender, among other roles far removed from politics, proved on Monday he is not just another pretty face.
Thousands of people trying to reach the heart of Europe surged across Serbia's border into Croatia on Monday after authorities eased restrictions that had left them stranded for days in ankle-deep mud and rain.
Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's double-amputee "Blade Runner", was released on parole on Monday after serving less than 12 months of his five-year sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013.
A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese authorities said on Tuesday, the first such confirmation more than four years after the worst atomic accident in a generation.
An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan's personal e-mail account and has posted documents online, including a list of e-mail addresses purportedly from Brennan's contact file.
Up to 70 Japanese lawmakers visited the notorious World War II-linked Yasukuni shrine on Tuesday, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ritual offering.
An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a monthlong wave of violence.
A typhoon swept across the northern Philippines killing at least 16 people as trees, power lines and walls were toppled. But tens of thousands of people were evacuated as floodwaters engulfed large areas..
Three hundred and ninety-four residents of the Republic of Korea, many of them elderly and nearly all in a state of fevered anticipation, gathered on Monday before crossing into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a rare reunion with separated family members.
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