Reuters

China will take a decision on establishing an air defense identification zone around disputed waters in the South China Sea based on its assessment of the security situation, a senior Chinese military official said on Sunday.

Police in Bangladesh arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State group in Dhaka, a senior officer said on Sunday, following the detention days earlier of two other suspects.

Six world powers have agreed on a way to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran if the country breaks the terms of a future nuclear deal, clearing a major obstacle to an accord.

Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a U.S. warship that was acting "aggressively" in the Black Sea, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday.

Perry, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, died at his home in Salt Lake City.

The Tampa Bay Lightning earned a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals by defeating the New York Rangers.

Ahead of the upcoming controversial presidential election, sources say the vice president of Burundi's election commission has fled the country.

The talks were the first substantive meeting since Iran struck an interim accord with the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China on April 2.

President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration late on Friday to free up federal funds to help rebuild areas of Texas affected by the storms.

The migrants have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean in the last 24 hours, the Italian coastguard said on Saturday.

The attack occurred barely a day after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who swore to crush the Islamist militant group.

The quake struck off the eastern coast but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage since the quake was extremely deep.

Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 20 passengers late on Friday after forcing them off buses traveling from the western city of Quetta.

A boat packed with more than 700 "boat people" seized of Myanmar's coast was still being towed at sea on Saturday, as officials gave mixed signals about its final destination.

Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi'ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said.

If the U.S. Congress fails to act, key provisions of the USA Patriot Act will lapse on Sunday, in a watershed moment in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era.

Mexico's president came under pressure on Friday to fully disclose his financial assets following a Reuters report on Thursday that he had misrepresented the circumstances under which he acquired a property in a lakeside retreat near Mexico City.

The U.S. military said on Friday it discovered even more suspected shipments of live anthrax than previously thought, both in the United States and abroad, and ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the bacteria.

An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

The economy appears poised for its worst first-half performance since 2011.

The acquisition of Telecity by Equinix would create the largest data center player in Europe.

Intel signed a standstill agreement earlier this year with Altera that expires on June 1.

The Shanghai Composite Index was down 3.9 percent after diving nearly 7 percent on Thursday.

South Korean lawmakers passed a bill early on Friday to ban taxi services provided by private drivers, marking what is likely the first nationwide legislation to outlaw Uber Technologies Inc's low-cost uberX service.

A volcano on the remote southern Japanese island of Kuchinoerabujima erupted suddenly on Friday, blasting plumes of black smoke high into the sky and prompting authorities to order the evacuation of the island's residents.

Avago Technologies Ltd. agreed to buy Broadcom Corp (BRCM.O) for $37 billion in the largest merger of chipmakers ever, turning a lesser known company run by a ferocious dealmaker into one of the biggest industry players.

The FBI said on Thursday it had begun looking into the illegal access of the tax-return information of about 100,000 people disclosed by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week.

Spain's state prosecutor charged the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, with terrorism and crimes against humanity over a 2013 attack on a Nigerian town in which a Spanish nun was assaulted, court papers said.

The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said.