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.
Ukraine assured the United States on Wednesday that it had a policy against using the armed forces against demonstrators, the Pentagon said, after Washington expressed alarm at Kiev's deployment of riot police against anti-government protests.
A small group of anti-government protesters climbed via ladder into the compound of the Thai Government House Thursday morning, but did not stay long, witnessed said.
The honeymoon was short-lived for Australia's gay couples who married in the past five days after the High Court overturned new same-sex marriage laws on Thursday, invalidating wedding ceremonies performed since Saturday.
The plan for the destruction of all Syrian chemical stockpiles outside the country will be released on Dec 17, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A hearing into the July 6 crash highlighted the pilots' mistaken reliance on the autopilot to maintain their airspeed but also Korean cultural factors that may have played a role.
The NSA chief says he knows of no better way his agency can help protect the US from foreign threats than with spy programs that collect billions of phone and Internet records from around the world.
Japan is trying to justify attempts to break away from its pacifist Constitution and build up its military by fanning the so-called China threat, experts said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov asked the European Union on Wednesday to provide $27.5 billion in aid to improve the country's infrastructure.
The roof of a bank's office building collapsed Wednesday morning in the north of Moscow, inflicting no casualties, police said.
The Philippine government condemned on Wednesday the killing of another radio broadcaster in the southern city of Tagum in Davao del Norte.
A radio broadcaster was killed after being shot by unidentified gunmen in Tagum City, Davao province in southern Philippines, police said on Wednesday.
Uruguay passed a law on Tuesday allowing its citizens to grow, buy and smoke marijuana, becoming the first country to legalize the full cycle from cultivation and distribution to consumption of the drug.
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