South Korea doesn't need nuclear arms to deter the threat from North Korea, the country's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said in an exclusive interview with CNN -- even as public opinion swings the other way amid Asia's accelerating arms race.
The United States on Thursday added two subsidiaries of Chinese genetics company BGI to a trade blacklist over allegations it conducted genetic analysis and surveillance activities for Beijing, which Washington says was used to repress ethnic minorities in China.
At home in Anchorage, Alaska, nurse Teresa Gray was playing a board game with her children when she heard about the massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 6.
Nigeria's third-placed presidential candidate, Peter Obi, strongly rejected the results and vowed to contest them in the courts, in his first public address since Saturday's election.
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Foreign ministers from the world's biggest economies have convened in New Delhi, setting the stage for a grand test in Indian diplomacy as it attempts to navigate tensions over Russia's brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Inflation in Europe fell again in February, though not as sharply as expected, and national data showed accelerating price rises in many of the region's top economies.
One of China's richest women has fully taken over Country Garden, a top real estate developer, after her father resigned, which added to a string of prominent entrepreneurs retreating from their posts during a historic downturn in the property market.
At a temporary Aboriginal gathering space dubbed Marri Madung Butbut — or "Many Brave Hearts" in the language of Sydney's original inhabitants, the Gadigal people — eight performers emerged through lasers and lights that appear to move and thrust to the electronic beat.
Vietnam's National Assembly on Thursday named Vo Van Thuong as the country's new president, in a reshuffle of the country's top leadership amid a sweeping anti-graft campaign.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko -- a close ally of Vladimir Putin -- vowed to deepen defense and security ties and expressed shared views on the war in Ukraine during a Wednesday meeting in Beijing, as geopolitical tensions around Russia's war continue to rise.
The number of births registered in Japan plummeted to another record low last year -- the latest worrying statistic in a decades-long decline that the country's authorities have failed to reverse despite their extensive efforts.
Indonesian security forces say they have surrounded armed rebels holding a New Zealand pilot captive in the restive Papua region but will refrain from taking any action that could endanger his life.
Uranium particles enriched to near bomb-grade levels have been found at an Iranian nuclear facility, according to the UN's nuclear watchdog, as the US warned that Tehran's ability to build a nuclear bomb was accelerating.
A conservator at London's Westminster Abbey is carrying out meticulous restoration work on a fragile 700-year-old chair to ensure King Charles III can sit on it at his coronation in May.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the winner of a closely fought contest for Nigeria's presidency. But who is the man who will lead Africa's largest economy -- as well as inherit its plethora of economic and security crises?
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi last month sent a message to his Gulf allies. "The most important point here is support from our brothers," he said at the World Government Summit (WGS) in Dubai, where he was guest of honor.
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