It would extend existing sanctions on firms that invest in Iran's energy sector to include related joint ventures anywhere in the world where Iran's government is a substantial partner or investor.

President Nicolas Sarkozy went on primetime TV on Sunday to unveil plans for new taxes he hopes will fix France's ailing economy and boost his credibility ahead of polls he is tipped to lose to a Socialist.

White House hopeful Mitt Romney has opened up a commanding double-digit lead in Florida against main rival Newt Gingrich in their Republican nomination battle, the latest two polls showed on Sunday.  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigns at Eastern Ship Building in Pensacola, Florida.. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

North Korea plans a massive military parade including missiles and other weaponry to mark major anniversaries early this year after its leader's death, South Korean media reports said Monday.  File photo of a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AFP/KCNA via KNS/File)

A rehab center for drug addicts in the Peruvian capital caught fire Saturday morning, killing at least 32 people.

British Home Secretary Theresa May announced on Wednesday that she had ordered special measures to be taken to prevent protesters from setting up camps at Olympic venues before and during the Games, which is scheduled to start at the end of July.

The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it will keep the exceptionally low levels for the key interest rate at least through late 2014, with the aim of boosting economic recovery.

UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said here on Wednesday that he wants his team "to look deeply at the world and our work today," in order to help build "a safer and more secure world" in the face of multiple crises such as climate change, food insecurity and deadly diseases.

As ASEAN chair in 2012, Cambodia will play its role as a neutral mediator in all regional and international issues, said Prime Minister Hun Sen on Jan. 24.

Apple Inc. announced here on Thursday that it will launch iBooks 2 digital textbook software to bring interactive textbooks to elementary and high school students on the iPads.

Australian scientists on Saturday said they discovered genes are responsible for 40 percent of our lifetime intelligence with the other 60 percent being determined by our environment.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, paid some 330 million U.S. dollars for healthcare incidents in Fukushima, the first compensation from TEPCO, according to local media Thursday.

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.

Officials and business representatives from 10 ASEAN member countries gathered in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Jan. 16 to discuss opportunities and challenges from free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as ways that ASEAN will benefit from the agreements.

The U.S. federal government reported a budget deficit of nearly 86 billion U.S. dollars in December, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday.