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.
Four more bodies were recovered from a maritime tragedy in the central Philippine province of Cebu, bringing the death toll to 75.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea accepted Republic of Korea's proposal to hold contacts for reunion of families separated by the Korean War, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Thursday.
Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said a leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant could be the beginning of a new disaster - a series of leaks of contaminated water from storage tanks.
A river can be seen flowing among sand dunes in the Tanami Desert, located in Australia's Northern Territory in this July 15, 2013 file photograph.
At least 37 were killed after a tourist bus plunged into ravine near Malaysia's Genting Highlands resort on Wednesday in one of the worst road accidents in a decade in the country, authorites said.
The US has been increasing reconnaissance in waters near China, a situation that Beijing regards as harmful to the building of trust.
Japan will raise the severity rating of a recent toxic water leak at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to level 3, or "serious incident", on an international scale for radiological releases.
With the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan often marked by diplomatic fouls and offsides, it took a soccer match in Kabul to bring the neighbours together on Tuesday.
An estimated 300 metric tons of highly radioactive water is believed to have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant, the operator said on Tuesday as it battled the latest toxic water threat.
A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Seventeen Indian athletes have been disqualified from the second Asian Youth Games in China because they are over the age limit, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) confirmed on Tuesday.
China and the United States aim to build more stable military ties, despite distrust over cybersecurity and recent tensions over territorial issues.
Comment: China, US keen on deepening trust
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