The son of the first victim among 130 people killed in coordinated attacks in Paris a year ago said on Sunday his Portuguese-born father was the symbol of integration that is the key to healing the stigmatization that drives some youth to violence.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck central New Zealand just after midnight, the US Geological Survey said, generating a tsunami that hit the northeast coast of the South Island.
US President Barack Obama's administration has suspended its efforts to win congressional approval for his Asian free-trade deal before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, saying that its fate was up to Trump and Republican lawmakers.
Barack Obama and Donald Trump on Thursday put past animosity aside during a 90-minute White House meeting designed to quell fears about the health of the United States' democracy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday praised the "growing convergence" of views between his nation and Japan, saying strong ties will enable them to play a stabilizing role in Asia.
The United States and Australia are close to announcing a deal in which the US would resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific island camps, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The South Korean government called for calm on Friday ahead of a mass rally against President Park Geun-Hye - expected to be one of the largest seen in Seoul since the pro-democracy protests of the 1980s.
Leonard Cohen, the baritone-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who seamlessly blended spirituality and sexuality in songs like Hallelujah, Suzanne and Bird on a Wire, has died at age 82, his son said on Thursday.
Abbas Khan feeds a hot wire from a rickety generator into a river, a fishing technique he argues is more environmentally friendly than others used in northwest Pakistan - though he also admits it has killed several of his friends.
Nearly everywhere you look inside one Michigan McDonald's, there's an 18-year-old Curtis.
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