Monday's announcement comes just months after South Korea's former prime minister Lee Wan-koo resigned amid a bribery scandal.
Flight MH132, flying from Auckland, New Zealand, to Kuala Lumpur, took a wrong route after confusion over the flight plan.
At least 13 people were injured and one person was killed in a car bomb explosion near the Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Ending a decades-old one-child rule, the country will allow couples to have two children beginning in 2016.
Although Iraqi forces said Monday they had kicked the remaining Islamic State group militants out of Ramadi, ISIS still holds nearby Fallujah.
The head of China Telecom Corp. has been detained on suspicion of graft, according to media reports.
The extremist group, which the government claims is beaten, struck a village near the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Almost 100,000 people will have been evacuated in Paraguay, the country hardest hit by the extreme flooding in South America.
Russia says ISIS is trucking its oil through Iraqi Kurdistan. The regional government denies that claim.
A leftist party in the separatist coalition rejected keeping Artur Mas in power, so a new election may be needed in the Spanish region.
A German entrepreneur has launched an experiment to test the effects of universal basic income in Germany, using crowdfunded donations.
The French island has been sharply divided since a Christmas Eve attack injured two firefighters and one police officer.
Cuban migrants have surged into Central America and Mexico as a result of the growing detente between Havana and Washington.
Yair Ramati presided over the successful Iron Dome program during the Gaza war but seems to have mishandled classified data.
The deal will allow safe passage to the Beirut airport to fighters who have been holed up for months near the Lebanese border in the town of Zabadani.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the airstrike that killed the extremist Samir Kantar in Syria last week.
Iraqi forces have been trying to retake the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group for several weeks.
North Korea's homemade computer operating system relies on a go-it-alone approach, snooping on users and allowing access only to state-approved media, a report said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Muslim leaders to change the worldwide perception of Islam.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said German courts decided refugees were not being treated humanely in Greece and could not be sent back.
Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks have killed 20 Israelis and a U.S. citizen, raising fears of escalation.
Russia, which has launched about 5,200 sorties in Syria over the past three months, has faced accusations of damage to civilian life and property.
China previously did not have a special law covering violence in the family.
Yemen's state news agency said the target was a Saudi national guard base.
The U.S. has raised concerns about the law's potential to be misused by China, which has responded by saying the U.S. has similar laws.
The row over Korean women forced into prostitution for Japan's military brothels during World War Two remains the last major obstacle to better ties between the East Asian neighbors.
The raid came days after police busted a militant hideout in the capital Dhaka as security forces stepped up a hunt for Islamist militants.
The El Niño phenomenon this year is the strongest in over 15 years, leading to excessive summer rain in parts of South America and the continent's worst floods in 50 years.
Milos Zeman says fighting-age men should instead stay back in their countries to battle ISIS.
Costa Rica's immigration director announced Saturday that 56 people trying to get to the U.S. will be sent home.