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.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Japanese leaders to respect human conscience in the wake of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.
The US Coast Guard says four of five people aboard a Navy helicopter that went down in the Atlantic off Virginia have been rescued.
An inquest jury has largely vindicated police over a fatal shooting that set off a wave of rioting across England in 2011.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has rejected a South Korean proposal for talks on resuming reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry will monitor from space the vicinities of Sochi during the upcoming Winter Olympic Games.
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry will monitor from space the vicinities of Sochi during the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, the ministry's regional chief said Thursday.
A German court dismissed a case on Wednesday against a 92-year-old man accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter in World War Two when he was in Hitler's elite Waffen SS, citing lost evidence.
Obama later this month is to unveil a series of intelligence reforms, including how the National Security Agency operates, with a view toward giving Americans more confidence that their privacy is not being violated.
Utah will not recognize, at least for now, the marriages of gay couples who rushed to wed after a federal judge's ruling briefly legalized gay unions in the conservative.
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will no longer travel to India as planned next week, an official of the US Energy Department said on Wednesday.
A Canadian has died from H5N1 avian influenza after returning from a trip to China in what is the only current confirmed case of its kind in North America.
Negotiations between Iran and six world powers on implementing a landmark November deal to freeze parts of Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for easing some sanctions have run into problems over advanced centrifuge research.