A major winter storm swept through parts of the US Midwest on Sunday, dumping more than 30 cm of snow in the Chicago area before tracking toward New England, closing schools throughout the US Midwest and east.
The four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta went on display together for the first time on Monday, as Britain began 800th-anniversary celebrations for a document that forms the basis for legal systems around the world.
South Korea's agricultural ministry confirmed on Monday that a dog at a duck farm has been infected with avian influenza.
Japan must work with the international community to fight terrorism and boost ways to ensure the safety of its people, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese journalist.
The US is doing everything in its power to rescue a 26-year-old woman held by the Islamic State group, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.
Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail on Sunday and left Egypt after 400 days in prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said.
Thailand's junta vowed to tighten security on Monday after two homemade pipe bombs detonated near a Bangkok shopping mall, the first major disruption to an uneasy peace imposed under martial law since May's coup.
The Republic of Korea renewed its call on Monday for resuming dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after its offer to hold talks in January failed amid disputes over various issues.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has used a landmark address to the National Press Club on Monday to warn his coalition government against "infighting".
Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as militias used artillery fire to try to dislodge government forces from a strategic rail hub after peace talks collapsed.
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists.
The trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sex charges in France - the nation where he once was considered a top presidential contender - was to begin on Monday, local time.
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