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.
Some districts in northern province of Lamphun and central Ayutthaya province in Thailand have been flooded after continued heavy rain.
Taliban gunmen shot and killed the head of the Independent Election Commission in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a day after he warned that deteriorating security threatened next year's presidential elections.
A Chinese exchange student received an official commendation on Wednesday for saving a nine-year old boy who fell into the Yodo River in Osaka City of the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka, local press reported.
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has approved the law against bullying in schools.
The new Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and his wife Margie are seen after the official swearing in of government ministers at the Government House in Canberra September 18, 2013.
Ahead of the upcoming visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Beijing in October, New Delhi has called for more exchanges between the two countries to enhance mutual trust and expand areas of common interest.
The Chinese cruise liner Henna, which had been detained by a court in Jeju, the Republic of Korea, has departed and is scheduled to arrive in Tianjin on Wednesday morning.
A Malaysian national is an alleged "big-wig" of a 2 million AU dollar ($1.84 million) match-fixing scandal involving a Victorian soccer club, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported on Monday.
The United Nations special representative for Afghanistan on Monday congratulated the Afghan national football team over its recent win of an international trophy.
China on Monday firmly condemned any use of chemical weapons, calling on the international community to beef up their efforts for a political solution to the Syria crisis.
Journalists from China and India are being encouraged to boost exchanges and report more extensively on cooperation between the two countries.
A sixr-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and dumped in a park by her perpetrator late Sunday evening, police said Monday.