The Egyptian authorities have suspended football league matches indefinitely after clashes at a stadium in Cairo left at least 22 people dead.

North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast on Sunday, in a demonstration of military muscle by the secretive state amid escalating rhetoric against the United States and South Korea.

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are due to hold talks in Moscow to try to end escalating fighting in east Ukraine.

The 22nd Meeting of the ASEAN-EU Joint Cooperation Committee was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 5 during which the two blocs underlined their partnership’s special nature, future agenda, and impressive recent progress.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has toughened its stance with Greece by restricting financing to the country's banks.

Leaders from China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Russia have congratulated Vietnam on the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on February 3.

The price of oil rallied on Monday as investors speculated that the falling cost of crude may have ended.

The Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have vowed to continue pursuing peace despite the bloody clash in Mindanao on January 25 that left 44 policemen and 18 Muslim rebels dead.

Republican Mitt Romney bowed out of the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Friday after considering a third run, telling supporters it was time for the next generation of party leaders to seek the White House.

The Philippines’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) hit 6.9 percent during the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to 6.3 percent in the same period of 2013, according to official statistics announced on January 29.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to extend existing sanctions against Russia until September.

Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern Ukraine after a five-month ceasefire

Militants have attacked a hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing at least nine people including five foreigners, officials say

Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday after driving out Islamic State fighters, a monitoring group and Syrian state media said, although Washington said the four-month battle was not yet over.

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt, officials said.