All ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have ratified the ASEAN Convention on Counter-Terrorism (ACCT), the ASEAN Secretariat said in a statement released on January 22.

 In the speech marking the start of his second term, Obama placed the struggle for gay rights squarely in the pantheon of two other defining civil rights movements in American history: those for blacks and women.

London's Heathrow airport cancelled 10 percent of flights on Monday, a day after it cut its capacity by a fifth, and said services could face further delays with more snowfall expected.

The hostage death toll from a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant deep in the Sahara has risen to almost 60, with at least nine Japanese nationals also reported killed in an attack claimed by a veteran Islamist fighter on behalf of al Qaeda.

Mother nature in all her fury tossed them about like toys. Now they fill two airport runways -- parked, obedient and damaged -- as they await nibbles from buyers.

Floods in Indonesia's capital Jakarta have left at least 11 people dead, authorities said Friday as murky brown waters submerged parts of the city's business district, causing chaos for a second day.

Timor Leste is making efforts to attract investment from ASEAN member countries while strengthening activities to accelerate its process to join the association.

  In its newly-released flagship report Global Economic Prospects (GEP), the World Bank said the world economy remains fragile and prone to further disappointment, although the balance of risks is now less skewed to the downside than its has been in recent years. Global economic growth is expected to be at a relatively weak 2. 3 percent and 2.4 percent in 2012 and 2013 respectively and gradually strengthen to 3.1 and 3.3 percent in 2014 and 2015, the Washington-based Bank noted in the report. In its last forecast in June, the World Bank projected global growth to reach 3.0 percent in 2013.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's toughest gun-control measures and the first to be enacted since the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in neighboring Connecticut.

  U.S. President Barack Obama takes questions from reporters during a news conference at the White House in Washington, January 14, 2013.

 Opposition supporters take part in a protest march in Moscow, January 13, 2013.

The worst storms in a decade left swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out on Thursday, bringing misery to a region accustomed to temperate climates.

The Venezuelan government confirmed Tuesday that President Hugo Chavez will not be able to be sworn-in Thursday, Jan. 10, as the Constitution stipulates.

 Efforts by the international community have come to a standstill and a two-state solution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict seems more and more remote.