Chinese Culture Minister Cai Wu and Singapore's Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Yaacob Ibrahim signed the Sixth executive program on cultural cooperation in arts, heritage and library here Saturday.
Iran has played down a United Nations report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, state media reported on Saturday.
A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said.
India Saturday successfully testfired its home-made surface-to-air missile Akash from Chandipur in the eastern state of Odisha, sources said.
China wants to deepen the strategic and mutually beneficial relations with Japan and hopes Tokyo will respect Beijing's core interests and major concerns, Vice-Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday.
The US Department of State on Friday reassured the US universities in collaboration with Confucius Institutes that it will help fix the visa mess-up for Chinese language teachers in need.
The US Department of State will sort out a visa issue that affects Confucius Institute teachers and will "do its best to fix it without having anybody have to leave".
IAEA said its inspectors have detected traces of up to 27 percent-purity enriched uranium in Iran's Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant.
Opposition deputies brought proceedings to a halt inside the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, when they staged an action against the bill about the basics of the language policy.
US Thursday released its controversial annual human rights report, again pointing its finger at the human rights situation in other countries and regions.
In a move designed to give it more say in disputes over the South China Sea, the US began a new push to join the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Jon Huntsman, former US ambassador to China, believes the best way to advance US-China ties is to humanize the relationship and recognize that the relationship is no longer simply bilateral, but global.