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.
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea will hold a summit to tackle air pollution and promote green industries in Langfang, Hebei province, from Dec 14 to 15.
Three will represent Thailand's anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) to attend a government-held forum on Sunday, one of the three representatives Suriyasai Katasila said on Friday.
Thousands of guns are being offered for sale illegally by unlicensed firearms dealers on a single US website, according to a report released on Thursday by a group of US mayors campaigning for gun control.
The Senate Intelligence Committee and Central Intelligence Agency still have major disagreements over a huge report the committee is trying to complete that is highly critical of harsh counter-terrorism practices such as "waterboarding," which the agency used under President George W. Bush.
Jang Song-thaek, deposed senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was sentenced to death and executed on Thursday.
Jang Song-thaek, deposed senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been sentenced to death and executed after the Special Military Tribunal found him guilty of treason, the official news agency KCNA reported early Friday.
The joint team of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Thursday it "concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic."
The US and China are more likely to see each other as competitors than as partners or adversaries, a survey released on Thursday shows.
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia aspires be a global leader, but will not teach other countries how to live.
Russia's sluggish economic growth is caused mainly by domestic reasons not global crisis, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in his annual state-of-the-nation address to the parliament.
Anti-government protesters in Thailand's capital have resumed their tactic of besieging government offices, cutting off electricity to the prime minister's office compound and demanding that police abandon the premises.
Democrat Party leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (C) gestures as he arrives at Bangkok criminal court in Bangkok Dec 12, 2013.
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