The first batch of Chinese aid for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan arrived in central Philippine city of Cebu, a relief goods distribution center, on Monday evening.
Hundreds of records detailing sex-crime investigations involving US military personnel stationed in Japan show most offenders were not incarcerated.
More than 80 people were evacuated from Syria's embattled Homs City on Friday after having survived there for nearly two years, and more people are expected to leave under a three-day truce allowing people out and aid in.
Turkish security forces on Friday seized a Ukrainian man who officials said made a bomb threat and tried to hijack a passenger plane, demanding to go to the Winter Olympics venue of Sochi just as the opening ceremony was taking place.
Max Baucus, the newly approved next US ambassador to China, is expected to be a "good communicator" between the two countries.
Two more lives have lost at Harmony Gold mines, bringing to 10 the total number of miners who died in the past two days.
Representatives of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold talks with the aim of determining the next step of cooperation between the two sides.
When Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the 2012 US presidential election, many political strategists saw it as a triumph of the Obama team's technological prowess.
US President Barack Obama on Thursday rejected the idea of his having an "icy" relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday adopted a non-binding resolution in Strasburg, calling for targeted sanctions against Ukraine.
The eccentric chief executive officer of Swatch Group, one of the world's top watchmakers, was so incensed by recent allegations of mass U.S. spying that he chastised a top New York official over the matter in a letter late last year.
A Chinese expert has responded to statements from Washington and Manila that challenged Beijing's territorial sovereignty in the South China Sea.
The US Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve President Barack Obama's nomination of Senator Max Baucus, who has helped steer trade policy with China, as ambassador to Beijing.