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.
As Americans scrambled to beat a deadline to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, the White House gave most consumers an extra day, until Tuesday.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir said he was ready to begin talks with former Vice-President Riek Machar "without preconditions" to end the current crisis in the conflict-ravaged country.
The Chinese Consulate General in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has urged local authorities to find the culprits who killed a Chinese man during a robbery, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
Russia's Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, died on Monday at 94.
Cooperation between China and Pakistan on nuclear energy is for exclusively peaceful purposes and in the interests of local people, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Monday
Iran wants to improve bilateral relations with the United States and other Western powers, President Hassan Rouhani said.
The diplomatic row between India and the US seems to be moving towards a possible resolution, with Indian woman diplomat given accreditation by the United Nations and also exempted from personal appearance in the case, sources said.
Iran and six world powers will continue their expert-level nuclear talks after the Christmas holidays.
Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor was ordered to recall more than 11,000 cars in South Korea due to defective air-conditioning system.
Anti-government demonstrators massed peacefully across Thailand's in their latest bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra before a February election the main opposition party will boycott.
The death toll of the blast which went off earlier on Sunday near an elementary school in Syria's central province of Homs rose to 20
Apple says it has reached a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world's biggest phone carrier.
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