In a joint military exercise, nearly 7,000 US and Philippine forces have begun South China Sea drills amid growing maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing over a disputed shoal.
South Korea's central bank has lowered the country's growth forecast for 2012 to 3.5 percent on account of the global economic slowdown that has resulted in the weakening of exports.
East Timor is holding the presidential run-off elections Monday and more than 700,000 eligible voters are expected to cast their votes in 650 polling booths. Two former freedom fighters -Francisco Guterres and Taur Matan Ruak - are in a close race in the run-off.
Addressing Israeli concerns on Iran buying extra time of five weeks over its alleged clandestine nuclear weapons program during the first round of key talks with the six world powers, US President Barack Obama said his administration has not given anything away, defending the need for a diplomatic resolution.
The coordinated attacks launched by the Taliban over the weekend on Afghanistan's capital have ended. Security forces unleashed an attack on the Taliban militants near the diplomatic enclave and the parliament before putting an end to the fighting which lasted 18 hours, a spokesman for Kabul's police chief has said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to ease rates when it announces the annual credit policy on Tuesday, in order to lift constraints on lending and in a response to the continued shortage of liquidity in the banking sector faced with a slow moving economy.
U.S. President Barack Obama said he would be angry if allegations are proven to be true that Secret Service and military officials cavorted with prostitutes in Colombia ahead of his official visit there this weekend.
The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will take effect next month, President Barack Obama announced Sunday during the two-day Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
Gu Kailai and Bo Xilai, an elite power couple in China, are at the center of a shocking political scandal involving the death of a British national.
North Korea won’t be bullied by its enemies, Kim Jong Un vowed in his first public address at a military parade marking his grandfather's centennial.
Three top contenders for Egypt's presidency were scrambling to stay in the race Sunday after the authorities disqualified them.
Taliban fighters launched a coordinated wave of assaults across Afghanistan Sunday, targeting the embassy district of Kabul and parliament, as well as trying to strike an airbase used by American troops, officials said.
Syrian government forces shelled Homs on Sunday, residents of the rebellious city said, as a six-person advance party of U.N. observers is due to arrive in Syria to monitor a ceasefire.
Multiple blasts and gun fire erupted in Afghanistan's capital Sunday. The Taliban-linked militants fired rockets at the parliament and NATO base, while reports said a series of blasts were heard in the highly guarded diplomatic area in Kabul.
Discussions of Iran's nuclear program between the Islamic Republic on the one side and the so-called P-5 Plus 1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S., plus Germany -- on the other side appear to have gone reasonably well in Istanbul on Saturday.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Saturday to send a team of international observers on a peacekeeping mission to Syria in the midst of the country's tenuous cease-fire.
Ten of 23 Egyptian presidential candidates -- three of them considered front-runners -- were disqualified as participants in the coming election by the country's Supreme Presidential Election Commission on Saturday.
It's been 14 months since protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign, but a number of his former ministers are still wielding real power, and they could holding onto it for the foreseeable future.
As Tax Day looms on April 17, Americans face a gigantic tax code that is four times the size of the complete works of William Shakespeare.
US President Barack Obama Friday said that North Korea should be isolated more from the international community to stop the reclusive country from going ahead with its objectionable nuclear and missile programs.
A dozen of US secret service agents assigned for President Barack Obama at an international summit in Colombia have been relieved of duty after allegations of drinking and consorting with prostitutes.
The recent arrest of a university professor in the Indian state of West Bengal for forwarding a political cartoon targeting the state's Chief Minister has shocked the public as well as the political parties across the spectrum.
South Korea's central bank said Friday that it is keeping the key interest rate unchanged at 3.25 percent, subsequent to the inflationary pressures witnessed by the country.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore Friday tightened monetary policy in an attempt to alleviate core inflationary pressures and thereby to enhance growth.
Mitt Romney aimed to assure gun owners Friday he would safeguard our Second Amendment as he claimed President Barack Obama undermines the U.S. Supreme Court and tramples on constitutional rights.
Here's a look at the five most profitable companies profiled in a recent Citizens for Tax Justice report on corporate taxation and the top five federal political candidates or incumbents to whom each has contributed during the 2011-2012 election cycle.
The growing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan will likely dominate the first annual Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa
Hours after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden published their 2011 tax returns, Mitt Romney announced he has requested an extension for his own filing.
A federal court on Friday sentenced Tarek Mehanna to 17 years in prison, prompting an impassioned speech from the American Muslim charged with disseminating jihadist propaganda on the Internet.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced the source of a 10-square mile oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico was likely a naturally occurring oil seep from the ocean floor, not a spill from an oil rig.
