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.
Colombia has arrested 286 suspected drug traffickers at major airports throughout the country so far this year, a police report said Wednesday.
Four Frenchmen held hostage in the Sahara desert by al Qaeda-linked gunmen for three years left Niger on a French government plane on Wednesday morning.
Forty passengers were burnt alive when a bus caught fire in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh early Wednesday, police said.
The UN General Assembly ( UNGA) on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the United States to end its long-running embargo against Cuba.
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) on Tuesday approved countervailing duties and antidumping probes on imports from China and Japan of a chemical often used to sanitize water in swimming pools.
Anger over Washington's extensive eavesdropping on world leaders and ordinary citizens has shown no signs of abating.
Japan's self-defense force is launching a charm offensive to make itself appealing to young Japanese. It is inviting Japan’s Web surfers to pick the Ms and Mr of Japan's naval service.
US Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner apologized Tuesday for problems that have kept Americans from successfully signing up for coverage.
He gave more surveillance power to US government spies, railed against civil liberties advocates who warned about privacy abuses, and famously shut down a 2005 hearing to silence critics.
A total of 22 lawmakers from the Republic of Korea will visit the Kaesong industrial complex on Wednesday to check business conditions and listen directly from businessmen with factories.
US experts discussed the improved Sino-US relationship on Monday at an annual event organized by the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR).
A man shot dead in Tuesday's gun atrocity in southwestern Sydney was associated with a crime gang.