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Typhoon Soulik: 300,000 people evacuated in eastern China
Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern China have fled their homes as Typhoon Soulik moves inland amid warnings of floods and landslides, state...
Typhoon Soulik hits Taiwan killing one person and leaving 21 injured
Typhoon Soulik has hit Taiwan, bringing strong winds and torrential rain to the island. So far one person is reported to have died while 21...
Malala Yousafzai to speak at United Nations
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban gunmen, is to address the United Nations as part of her campaign to ensure free compulsory...
GSK senior executives face China bribery investigation
Chinese authorities have announced that some senior executives of the local division of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are facing a criminal investigation. They are being investigated for...
Huge python found in Australian charity shop
A 19 foot python has been seized after it fell from the ceiling of a charity shop in Australia. The python, weighing 37 lbs, was...
North Korea and South Korea start in-depth talks on reopening Kaesong Industrial Complex
North Korea and South Korea have started in-depth talks on reopening joint-project Kaesong Industrial Complex. The two Koreas agreed in principle to restart operations at...
Osama bin Laden Pakistani report leaked to Al-Jazeera reveals how he avoided detection for ten years
A leaked Pakistani government report reveals that incompetence and negligence allowed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to live in Pakistan undetected for almost a...
Asiana Airlines shares fall after Boeing 777 crash landing in San Francisco
Asiana Airlines shares fell nearly 6% in Seoul, after one of its planes crash landed in San Francisco over the weekend. US investigators have said...
India: Secunderabad City Light hotel collapse kills at least 12 people
At least 12 people have been killed in the City Light hotel collapse in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad, police says. At least 18...
North Korea and South Korea agree to reopen Kaesong industrial complex
North Korea and South Korea have agreed in principle to reopen the Kaesong industrial complex after official talks. The deal, which includes facilities inspections, was...
North Korea and South Korea holding talks on reopening Kaesong Industrial Complex
Officials from North Korea and South Korea are holding talks on reopening the Kaesong Industrial Complex. The two sides sat down together on Saturday at...
South Korea offers working-level talks with North Korea on Kaesong
South Korea has proposed working-level talks with North Korea on reopening the jointly-run Kaesong Industrial Complex. Seoul made the proposal a day after Pyongyang said...
Missing sail boat Nina presumed to have sunk in New Zealand waters
American yacht Nina carrying eight people and missing in waters between New Zealand and Australia is now presumed to have sunk, say rescuers. But it...
Julia Gillard ousted by Kevin Rudd as Australia’s Labor Party leader
Australia's PM Julia Gillard has been ousted by Kevin Rudd as leader of Labor Party. Kevin Rudd won by 57 votes to 45, in a...
Chinese astronauts on Shenzhou-10 spacecraft return to Earth
Three Chinese astronauts on Shenzhou-10 spacecraft have returned to Earth in a capsule that has landed safely after a 15-day mission in space. The astronauts travelled...
South Korea government websites hit by cyber attack
South Korea has issued a cyber alert after a hacking attack on government websites. The website of the presidential office was one of several official...
Chen Guangcheng arrives in Taiwan to discuss human rights in China
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has arrived in Taiwan for an 18-day trip that is likely to anger Beijing. Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who arrived on...
Singapore haze reaches new record high for a third day
Singapore pollution levels reached a new record high for a third day in a row, as smoky haze from fires in Indonesia shrouded the...
Asian markets fall for second day after Fed stimulus comments
Most Asian markets have fallen again as investors continue to react to news that the Federal Reserve could begin to scale back its stimulus...
Singapore smog hits record levels prompting government health warnings
Smog in Singapore soared to hazardous levels again on Thursday, prompting government health warnings. At 13:00 local time Singapore's pollution standards index (PSI) reached 371,...
North Korea blasts report that Kim Jong-un gave out copies of Adolf Hitler’s memoir Mein Kampf
North Korea has blasted a report that its leader, Kim Jong-un, gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir Mein Kampf to officials on his...
NATO forces hand over control of security operations to Afghanistan
NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. At a ceremony in...
North Korea high-level talks offer receives cool response from US and South Korea
The United States and South Korea have responded coolly to North Korea's offer of high-level talks with Washington. North Korea will be judged "by its...
Tom Stilwell survives 15th floor fall in New Zealand
Tom Stilwell from UK has survived a fall from the 15th floor of a building in New Zealand, local media report. Tom Stilwell fell from...
North Korea proposes high-level talks with US after cancelling meeting with South Korea
North Korea has proposed high-level talks with the United States, days after cancelling a meeting with South Korean officials. The National Defense Commission said in...
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