Princess Noriko (R), second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, speaks beside fiance Kunimaro Senge at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo May 27, 2014.
South Korea's unification ministry on Friday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to take real action to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea said on Friday that its joint military drills with the United States will go ahead as scheduled.
A villager is pinned down by a bull during a bull-taming festival on the outskirts of Madurai town, about 500 km (310 miles) from the southern Indian city of Chennai Jan 16, 2014.
Thailand's embattled government offered to sell rice at a huge loss, officials said, as it sought to shore up Prime Minister Yingluck's support among farmers.
The US renewed its call for the DPRK to abandon its nuclear program after Pyongyang's fresh appeal for ending hostilities on the Korean Peninsula.
Singapore's annual art fair – Art Stage Singapore – opens on Jan 16 and runs to Jan 19 at the country's Marina Bay Sands Convention Center.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday called for stopping verbal and military provocations between the two sides of the Korean Peninsula and taking practical measures to prevent a "nuclear-disaster".
Australia can expect even longer and hotter heat waves than the one now scorching wide swathes of the country, a climate research group said on Thursday, raising questions about its long-term position as an agricultural powerhouse.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a one-trillion-dollar spending bill in which a document is attached calling for Secretary of State John Kerry to encourage Japan to address the issue of "comfort women."
The number of death toll in flash floods and landslide in North Sulawesi province of eastern Indonesia rose to 13 on Thursday, with 2 people still missing and about 40,000 others fleeing to escape the catastrophe, an official said.
Indian police has arrested two suspects in the gang rape of a Danish woman tourist this week in the Indian capital, said local media Thursday.
A 51-year-old Danish woman has been allegedly robbed and then gangraped by a group of eight men in the Indian capital late last night, a police official said Wednesday.