Palestinians armed with butcher’s cleavers and a gun killed four worshipers at a synagogue in Jerusalem in an attack that escalated months of violence in the city.

A Frenchman is believed to have been among Islamic State jihadists appearing on a video showing the severed head of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, but a British man denied earlier reports his medical student son was there too.

Almost 200 people have received GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine in trials in the United States, Britain, Mali and Switzerland, and the safety data so far are "very satisfactory", scientists said on Monday.

Japan's economy unexpectedly shrank for the second consecutive quarter, marking a technical recession in the world's third largest economy.

One of California's largest newspapers has asked reporters and other employees to help deliver papers on Sundays,

A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3

Trat provincial authorities are requesting assistance from local administrative organisations to inspect water levels in their respective area so that water management plans can be arranged.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and US President Barack Obama lauded encouraging progress made in the relations between the two countries

The Philippines greeted 2.86 million international tourists during January-July, an increase of 2.2 percent from the same period in 2013.

The 25th ASEAN Summit and meetings between the bloc and partner countries concluded on the afternoon of November 13 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

A Malian nurse has died of Ebola, the second confirmed death from the disease in the country.

Nhan Dan newspaper correspondent Pham Dao, who followed President Truong Tan Sang on his Beijing trip to attend the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC)

Europe is marking Armistice Day with ceremonies and moments of silence as France opens an international memorial on a former battlefield.

The Netherlands will hold a national ceremony here Monday to commemorate the victims of the MH17 flight air crash in east Ukraine.

The 25th ASEAN Summit and related meetings