Frightened residents fled a bustling city of 400,000 at the foot of Indonesia’s rumbling volcano Monday, cramming onto trains, buses and rented vehicles as authorities warned Mount Merapi could erupt again at any time.
President Barack Obama has acknowledged on 60 Minutes that he has made many errors during his period of office.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron leads his country’s largest ever official delegation to China on Monday, hoping to win trade and woo a powerful potential ally as London seeks to cultivate ties beyond Washington and Europe.
Iraq has been without a new government since the March 7 election failed to produce a clear winner, leaving Shi’ite Muslim, Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians jockeying for power.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – President Barack Obama heralded the relationship between the United States and India as a “defining partnership” of the 21st century Monday during a grand ceremony marking his visit to the world’s largest democracy.
Over-enthusiastic visitors are turning the naturists beach in a southern French town into the capital of debauchery by performing sex acts in the open, local residents have complained.
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev today said a total of 454 terrorism-related crimes were registered in the country, in the first nine months, this year. A total of 454 terrorism-related and 510 extremism-related crimes were registe…
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iraq on Monday to develop an inclusive power-sharing government, but would not confirm the country was close to striking agreement on a national unity leadership.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “convinced” parts of Afghanistan will be under the control of Afghan forces by next year.
In one of her final roles Jill Clayburgh plays on-screen mom to Jake Gyllenhaal in “Love and Other Drugs.” Gyllenhaal said Clayburgh’s ability to live life to its fullest, cherishing every moment, left an “indelible impression” on him.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of an airliner that went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed Saturday to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity t…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Earthquake-hit Haiti escaped a fresh disaster threatened by Hurricane Tomas, but the storm caused flooding that killed eight people and increased the contagion threat from a deadly cholera epidemic, the government and aid workers s…
United States President Barack Obama stated that the November 7 elections in Burma were neither free nor fair, and failed to meet any of the internationally accepted standards associated with legitimate elections.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called on India on Sunday to bolster peace efforts with Pakistan that have floundered since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, relations seen as crucial to his troubled efforts to win the war in Afghanistan.
AN Adelaide man who posed as a spy and boasted of having people kidnapped and tortured has been jailed for elaborate scams to con former AFL players.