The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China has risen to 87, with 21 other miners still trapped, state media reported on Sunday.
When US President Barack Obama beamed in Beijing, the Chinese managed tight-lipped smiles. When he spoke haltingly with none of his usual confidence, about Tibet, Iran or the Chinese currency, they ignored him, served chicken soup with bean curd and sent him to climb the Great Wall, reports Reshma Patil.
An Al-Qaeda chief who switched sides and joined US forces to fight his former compatriots has been sentenced to death for killing a young girl in a revenge attack, court officials said Thursday.
Iran said on Thursday it was open to more talks but offered no concessions after rejecting a Western proposal for it to send most of its stocks of low-enriched uranium abroad in return for nuclear fuel.
A website set up by China's Ministry of Defence this summer was hit by more than 230 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of the attacks were successful, state media reported on Thursday.
Another 42 people have died of swine flu in Iran over the past week, raising the Islamic republic's death toll from the illness to 100, ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia said that Israel's decision to build 900 new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem constituted a "major obstacle" to efforts to restart Middle East peace talks.
A Gaza charity linked to the ruling Hamas militant group is offering $1.4 million to anybody who captures an Israeli soldier. The Waad group sent an e-mail on Wednesday calling on people living in Israel to try take soldiers hostage.
US President Barack Obama took a walk alone on the Great Wall on Wednesday, wrapping up a visit to China with a visit to the ancient fortifications that symbolise the country's history and separateness.
Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today fired a rocket against southern Israel that caused no casualties or damage, the army said.
After a gap of nearly a decade, a joint statement issued by the US and China has named India and Pakistan. The statement had an unexpected line saying the two sides “support the improvement and growth of relations between India and Pakistan.” This will go down poorly in India. Reshma Patil reports.
Maintaining that the US and China are not 'predestined adversaries,' US President Barack Obama said his country does not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation but subtly pushed for greater freedom of expression in the Communist country.
Gunmen wearing military uniforms shot dead 12 men in a pre-dawn attack at a village near Baghdad on Monday, villagers and police said.
The UN atomic agency unveils its latest report on Iran's disputed nuclear drive on Monday, with world powers warning Tehran is "running out of time" to respond to a UN-brokered offer to end the standoff.
Suspected Islamist insurgents set off a bomb hidden in a motorcycle in Thailand's troubled south on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding six other people, police said.