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.
The first office tower at Ground Zero since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center opened on Wednesday, marking a comeback for the Lower Manhattan site.
A US aircraft carrier "strike group" started unloading food and water to the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines on Thursday, as President Benigno Aquino faced mounting pressure to speed up the distribution of supplies.
Christian Wulff on Thursday became Germany's first post-war president to go on trial, facing corruption charges for accepting more than 700 euros for a hotel stay and meals during an Oktoberfest beer festival when he was a state premier.
The upcoming China-European Union (EU) summit will look to agree a plan for bilateral ties covering the next decade, EU Ambassador to China, Markus Ederer, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview Thursday.
The wealthy city-state of Singapore has for the first time lifted the death penalty given to a drug trafficker, commuting his sentence to life in prison and 15 strokes of the cane.
Police in the Pakistani port city of Karachi said that six suspected militants were killed early Thursday and foiled a big terror plan on the eve of religious processions by the Shiite Muslims.
Residents walk in a village among houses destroyed by super Typhoon Haiyan in Tanauan, Leyte in central Philippines, Nov 14, 2013.
At least seven people, including a child, were charred to death while 40 others sustained burn injuries in a fire which broke out in the wee hours of Thursday on a luxury bus in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, a senior police official said.
The Syrian government re-controlled the town of Hajjira in the countryside of Damascus after dislodging the country's rebels, while it said it would seriously attend the Geneva II conference on Syria.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced his retirement from politics on Wednesday night with a speech in the House of Representatives.
The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has risen to 2,275 Wednesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, the executive director of National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
The New Zealand Police have launched a homicide investigation after a 37-year-old Chinese woman was killed after dropping her two children at school in a Wellington suburb.
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