Okinawa's governor on Tuesday revoked approval for work needed to relocate a US air base from one area of the southern Japanese island to another, but the Tokyo government said it would proceed with the plan.
Britain said on Tuesday it was seeking the release of an elderly British man facing 350 lashes after being caught with homemade wine in Saudi Arabia, a sentence that his family said could kill him.
South Korea plans to compel secondary schools to use a single state-authored history textbook from the school year of 2017 with the aim of teaching students the "right history".
US-led coalition forces parachuted in ammunition to rebels in Syria on Monday, stepping up their support for groups battling jihadists as regime troops engaged in their fiercest fights in weeks, aided by Russian airstrikes.
A New Zealand man could spend up to three decades behind bars after he was found guilty by an Australian court on Tuesday of trying to travel to the Middle East to fight in the Syrian conflict
Metropolitan Police announced that police guards outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staying, were removed on Monday.
A group of white Confederate flag supporters in the US state of Georgia have been charged under an anti-gang law for disrupting an African-American's birthday party with "terroristic threats", officials said on Monday.
Chaos returned to Pristina in Kosovo on Monday evening as protesters clashed with the police following the arrest of an opposition lawmaker.
Two orphaned sisters separated decades ago in South Korea have been reunited after miraculously getting hired on the same floor of a southwest Florida hospital.
Scottish economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes advanced against insurgents in the center of the country as Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Moscow's intervention in the conflict, saying it would aid efforts to reach a political settlement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia's defense minister on Sunday, in Moscow's biggest attempt so far to reach out to enemies of the Syrian government since Russia joined the conflict with airstrikes.
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