Shanghai: Police in Beijing have detained 18 people following a fire that killed 19 people and injured another eight on Saturday evening, the state news...
Amsterdam: Technical problems at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport delayed dozens of flights to one of Europe's busiest airports on Tuesday, the national...
Bangkok: Thailand is seeking to prosecute ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for graft under a law that allows politicians to be tried in absentia, an...
Geneva: The United Nations urged Sudan to end violence and human rights abuses against the 2.6 million people displaced by its long conflict in Darfur, a...
Berlin:Two veteran allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Germany's parties on Tuesday to strike compromise to form a stable government that...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a...
Beijing: China said on Tuesday it has urged Thailand to "quickly bring to justice" 20 ethnic Uighur Muslims from China who broke out of a Thai...
Phnom Penh: Sweden said on Tuesday it was stopping new aid for Cambodia, except in education and research, and would no longer support a reform programme...