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.
Atop Biden's agenda will be the efforts to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and help lower tensions in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
The rightist apologists of Japan's atrocious past and belligerent present find it a thorn in their side and wish the world would forget about its existence.
British PM arrives in Beijing Monday to kick off the highest-level bilateral exchange since a dispute over the Dalai Lama severely impacted relations last year.
Candid communication between Beijing and Washington is expected to disperse the tension over China's air defense identification zone and contribute to regional stability, observers said on the eve of US Vice-President Joe Biden's East Asia trip.
Emergency workers in Scotland pulled a body on Sunday from the wreckage of a pub into which a police helicopter crashed during a concert and they are searching for more victims, police said.
At least four Chinese people were killed and six others were injured in a factory fire in central Italy on Sunday, local media reported.
Iran plans to produce more electricity by building a second nuclear energy plant in the southern province of Bushehr, home for the country's first plant, said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday.
South Korea has been seeking a series of vice ministerial-level strategic talks with China and the United States to discuss the recently announced air defense identification zone (ADIZ) of China, local media reports said Sunday.
The Chinese embassy in Thailand on Sunday issued the second travel advisory in a week on Sunday to urge Chinese citizens to keep away from protest sites.
A Chinese passenger was among 34 people killed when a Mozambique Airlines plane en route to Angola crashed in a game park in northeastern Namibia killing all on board.
Scottish authorities raised the death toll to eight people Saturday in the crash of a police helicopter into a crowded Glasgow pub.
Americans are getting their first look on Saturday at whether a technology overhaul has made it easier to use the troubled website that is the backbone of Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul.