BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry pushed back against U.S. pressure on North Korea and the disputed South China Sea on Friday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Beijing for high-level meetings. Speaking in Seoul before leaving for ...

As the world went to sleep on 13 February 2013, they mostly had one image of Oscar Pistorius: an against-the-odds inspiration and, occasional moments of bad sportsmanship aside, a top athlete. The previous summer, the "Blade Runner" bagged three ...

BANGKOK - Riot police cleared anti-government protesters from a major boulevard in the Thai capital in a small victory for authorities Friday as they try to reclaim areas that have been closed during a three-month push to unseat Prime Minister Yingluck ...

Messaging app Viber has been bought by Rakuten, the owner of online retailer Play.com. The Japanese company will pay $900m (£540m) for the mobile application, which offers free calls and text messages from a mobile phone. Rakuten, which also owns ...

An Indonesian woman covered with ash from the Mount Kelud volcano at a roadside in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, today. Photograph: Bimo Satrio/EPA. Topics: News · World · Asia-Pacific · Ali Mundakir · Soemitro Samadikoen · Sutopo Nugroho · Indonesian ...

A fresh round of heavy wind, rain, and now snow, is beginning to wreak havoc across Britain. The news comes as around 56,000 households remain without power after gusts of up to 108mph battered parts of the country in the "Wild Wednesday" storms, ...

Gender has been, at least for the last few centuries owing to sexual conditioning by major established religions such as Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, etc seen only as a body-appearance based polarity. Male and Female have been the only options ...

Valentine's Day gets a bad rap when it comes to holidays. For the past few weeks, I've heard people putting down the holiday, refusing to acknowledge it or if they do, belittling it to a cliché greeting card holiday, nothing more. "We should show people how ...

Thousands of riot police were deployed in the Thai capital on Friday to clear areas occupied for weeks by opposition protesters seeking to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. PHOTOS. Thai police remove truck tires and sandbags from an ...

BANGKOK--Thai riot police on Friday began clearing antigovernment protesters from some areas of the country's capital, where demonstrators have blockaded streets and government offices for weeks in their bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

He arrived on February 14 and the most used of the world celebrated the metasearch 'Valentine's Day' through a new Doodle. This time, the famous interactive image search engine shows where netizens can participate. Clicking on the figure can be ...

"It's alive!! The rabbit is still alive!! The rabbit's awake!! It's really awake!!", wrote one user on weibo, China's version of Twitter. "Wake up darling baby," cooed another. "Billions of people are calling out to you!" What, pray tell, were they speaking to? China's ...

China's first lunar rover has started functioning again just a day after officials declared it was broken beyond repair, according to reports. It was reported on Thursday that the Yutu (Jade Rabbit) spacecraft had "awoken" from its dormant state, with a spokesman ...

Screenshot of a map produced by RSF on freedom of the press in the American continent. More than 20 years after the fall of the dictatorships and civil wars that dominated Latin America, the region continues to be marked by a strong retaliation against the ...

Italian politics was thrown back into crisis yesterday after Matteo Renzi, a 39-year old rising star of the Left, threw down the gauntlet and forced the resignation of Enrico Letta, the prime minister. Also in this section. Acquittal puts spotlight back on probe ...

Oscar Pistorius FILES Feb. 13/14 Oscar Pistorius, accused of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, stands during court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrates court on Aug 19, 2013. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters/Files). Tweet. Change text size for the ...

MENLO PARK -- In a move that transgender advocacy groups called a major step toward broader acceptance, Facebook said Thursday that it will offer new options for people to describe their gender on the world's biggest online social network, in addition to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A winter storm that froze the U.S. southeast in its tracks pushed north on Thursday, with driving winds and heavy snow snarling travel and closing many schools from Washington to Connecticut, creating havoc for winter-weary parents.

Teen on steps of private plane Young and richPrepare to be astounded and a little bit jealous of these kids who are uber rich and chronicle it all on instagram. Roses are still the red hot favourite for this year's Valentine's Day celebration, with gerberas, tulips ...

Belgium's Parliament voted to extend the nation's euthanasia law to terminally ill children facing unrelievable pain, becoming the first country to remove an age limit on the practice. The lower house of Parliament yesterday voted 86 to 44, with 12 abstentions, ...