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.
The Afghan Interior Ministry on Tuesday said that 21 militants were killed and five wounded in operations since early Monday in different provinces.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left here Tuesday to attend the 23rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Brunei from October 9-10.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Tokyo Electric Power Co admitted that human error was the cause of a pump cooling nuclear fuel being stopped on Monday morning.
A series of joint military drills between the US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft started on Tuesday.
China urged the United States, Australia and Japan on Monday not to use their alliance as an excuse to interfere in disputes over territorial sovereignty in the East and South China seas.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged China and South Korea to actively push forward the negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement.
India on Monday successfully testfired its home-made, nuclear-capable Prithvi II missile from a test range in the eastern state of Odisha, sources said.
Mexico and Indonesia have pledged to set up a comprehensive partnership in the Indonesian island of Bali on the sideline of the ongoing APEC meeting, according to a press release of the APEC media center Monday.
China said on Monday the US, Australia and Japan should not use their alliance as an excuse to intervene in territorial disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy in Yemen's capital on Sunday as he was leaving a supermarket, Yemeni security officials said, in an attack they said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
Eleven militants killed in operations in different Afghan provinces since early Saturday, said the country's Interior Ministry Sunday morning.
Sydney Harbour lights up with a fireworks display during the International Fleet Review (IFR) to help celebrate 100 years since the Royal Australian Navy fleet first entered Sydney Harbour, October 5, 2013.