An official dialogue towards the full normalisation of bilateral diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba is likely to be held in Havana in late January 2015, US Assistant Secretary of State

Cuban President Raul Castro has urged the US to end its trade embargo after the two countries opened formal talks on restoring diplomatic relations.

About 400 Russian sailors are returning home, French shipbuilder DCNS said Wednesday, as Paris weighs whether to deliver the Mistral-class warship to Russia amid the Ukraine crisis.

At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say.

The central bank of Indonesia forecasts the country’s currency rupiah will continue the depreciation trend in 2015 as the US dollar is strengthening in the markets.

A majority of delegates to an international conference in India have hailed Vietnam’s pillar role in the “Look East” policy which has transformed into the “Act East” under the leadership of new Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The self-styled sheikh behind a siege in the heart of Sydney was a violent offender, charged as an accessory to murder and with multiple sexual offences

Dozens of hostages were trapped inside a central Sydney cafe on Monday, with local television showing some being forced to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing in the window,

British intelligence agencies spoke to US counterparts about a report into CIA interrogation before it was published, Downing Street has said.

Leaders of ASEAN member nations and the Republic of Korea (RoK)

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were shot and wounded on Friday outside a Portland, Oregon, alternative high school when a gunman thought to have gang ties opened fire following a dispute, police said.

Russia's richest man has revealed that he bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him.

A Palestinian minister died on Wednesday shortly after an altercation with Israeli border police in the AWest Bank during which one of the policeman grabbed him by the neck.

Security has been stepped up at US facilities around the world ahead of the release of a report expected to reveal details of harsh CIA interrogations, the White House says.

The number of people confirmed to die due to typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines rose to 21, according to the Philippine Red Cross.