Developing nations called on Tuesday for rich countries to do more to lead the fight against climate change.
Indians marked the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy on Wednesday with protests demanding harsher punishments for those responsible and more compensation for the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Thai police on Wednesday said they are hunting one of the kingdom's richest men as part of a sprawling graft probe that has rocked the country's elite.
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution on Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight.
Fishermen recovered 11 more bodies from the western Bering Sea on Wednesday near where a South Korean fishing ship sank earlier this week.
Iranian fighter jets have struck Islamic State militants in eastern Iraq in recent days, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, signaling Teheran's determination to confront the extremists and Washington's tacit partnership with Iran.
Comedian Bill Cosby was sued on Tuesday by a woman alleging he molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15, in what is believed to be the first court case arising from a recent wave of sexual misconduct accusations against the entertainer.
It is not by chance that American IT giants Hewlett-Packard and Oracle Corporation both built their international software talent training centers in Jining, a third-tier city in Shandong province.
It is 2,500 years since Confucius said how delightful it was to have friends come from afar. Now, following in the tradition of the great sage, his home province is promoting its "Friendly Shandong" brand as it develops into a major tourist destination.
Over the past year or so, drinking a cup of tea at leisure has become a fashion in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and a number of teahouses have sprung up around the capital city of Pyongyang.
Ninety-two-year-old Johanna beams at the 20-year-old man stepping into her room - not a visiting grandson, but rather a housemate at her retirement home.
Tucked away between rolling hills dotted with sheep and winding roads taking wine lovers to vineyards is a nondescript, white warehouse with small, square windows.
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