China on Monday dismissed reports that foreign investment, the main stay of the nations's economic progress would be hit if internet giant Google decides to quit from the country.
Twenty-five people were killed when a fire broke out in a coalmine in central China, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
A host of young Japanese are drawn to the allure of "therapeutic ringtones" - a genre of melodies that promises to ease a range of day-to-day gripes, from chronic insomnia to a rotten hangover.
In order to maintain a low birth rate despite the country's economic boom, authorities in China have stepped up surveillance on city's growing floating population of migrant workers who were found to have more children violating the one child policy norm.
A double attack today by a suicide bomber on a military checkpoint and group of labourers in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah killed seven people, police and medics said.
Grenade attacks on a Bangkok military base on Monday wounded two soldiers as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters massed at another barracks in the Thai capital, a military spokesman said.
Grenade attacks on a Bangkok military base Monday wounded two soldiers as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters massed at another barracks in the Thai capital, a military spokesman said.
Israeli media reported today that the US is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was in China today, making a quick stop in Shanghai before heading to Beijing for talks likely to focus on Iran's nuclear programme.
A US Department of Homeland Security official who fled his post in South Korea is wanted in California in connection with a 240,000-dollar wire fraud, according to a statement seen today.
At least two senior members of Al Qaeda were killed in an airstrike by the Yemeni Air Force in a remote village in the south of the Arab country late Sunday, the Defence Ministry said.
A clan elder in Somalia says a fight over land rights between two rival clans has killed at least 15 people.
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 jolted northern Japan on Sunday, seismologists said, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo.
An Indian-origin man living in Malaysia got his birth certificate seized just because he has a Chinese name.
Iran claimed to have busted a spy racket allegedly linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data related to Iran's nuclear scientists.