Singapore shut schools on Friday and began distributing free antipollution masks to the elderly and other vulnerable people as a thick smoky haze cast covered the island nation with pollution reaching its worst level this year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called pop star Elton John and suggested a meeting, the president's spokesman said on Thursday, after the British singer was tricked last week by a prankster impersonating the Russian leader.
From the bright lights of Berlin to a grim former Nazi military barracks near the Czech border, one Syrian family's new life in Germany has been a rollercoaster of euphoria and despair.
The new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus hit stores on Friday, with dozens of people - and a robot - lining up in Sydney to kick off a global sales cycle that will be scrutinized for signs of how much juice Apple Inc's marquee product has left.
Volkswagen's supervisory board met on Friday to discuss who to name as CEO after Martin Winterkorn quit the job this week over an emissions-rigging scandal that's rocking the world's top-selling automaker.
The Information Office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, on Thursday issued a white paper titled "Historical Witness to Ethnic Equality, Unity and Development in Xinjiang". Following is the full text:
Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday following nearly six months of exile in Saudi Arabia, airport officials and a statement from his office said.
Burkina Faso's interim president declared on Wednesday he is once again in charge of the country a week after a military general and his supporters overthrew him and his transitional government.
Gunmen holding three foreigners and one Filipina hostage have slipped past a naval cordon and escaped to remote mountains in the southern Philippines without making ransom demands, police said on Wednesday.
An Indian who became an overnight star when an image of a policeman kicking his typewriter went viral has said he is fed up with all the attention - and just wants to go back to typing letters.
The governor of Okinawa has taken his effort to prevent the construction of a new US military site in Japan to a key United Nations human rights body, arguing that democracy and self-determination are threatened because his constituents oppose it.
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on Wednesday, taking responsibility for the German carmaker's rigging of US emissions tests in the biggest scandal in its 78-year history.
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