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.
Ethiopian president says colonial models of assistance are changing, and China's investment in Africa will transform the fortunes of the continent.
The US National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will grab any intelligence it can get its hands on regardless of its value to national security.
Top US diplomat for East Asian affairs visited South Korea on Sunday to discuss issues on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Syrian government and opposition delegations resumed face-to-face talks on Sunday expected to tackle humanitarian issues including opposition calls for Damascus to release women and child prisoners.
A man identified by police as one of the leaders of anti-government protests in Thailand was shot dead on Sunday when violence erupted as demonstrators in Bangkok tried to block early voting for an election next week.
A senior Palestinian official and a pro-peace member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) met on Saturday in the West Bank city of Ramallah to precipitate Mideast peace talks.
Thai anti-government protesters surrounded almost half of the polling stations in Bangkok on Sunday, election officials said, chaining doors shut and forcing the cancellation of advance voting in many centres for a disputed election next week.
The Thai Election Commision (EC) on Saturday decided that the advance voting for the February 2 election is going to be held as scheduled on Sunday.
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) concluded in Davos Saturday on a note of cautious optimism about the world economy.
Syria's civil war foes held their first face-to-face meetings, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people.
Supporters of Egypt's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi holds a poster of Sisi in Tahrir square in Cairo, on the third anniversary of Egypt's uprising, Jan 25, 2014.
A gunman opened fire with a shotgun in a skate shop at a crowded shopping mall near Baltimore on Saturday, killing two store employees and wounding another person before apparently killing himself.