The lawyer for a New York maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape said Wednesday that a phone recording proved she was no gold-digger after the ex-IMF chief's money. 

The representatives from the U. S. and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will meet "at the end of the week" in New York for preliminary talks, in a bid to revive the six-party negotiations, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said on Monday.

ASEAN member countries have reached a clear consensus on many issues and are determined to strengthen cooperation with partners at the 44th ASEAN Foreign Ministerial Meeting (AMM44).

Norway has been hit by twin attacks on July 23 - a massive bomb blast in the capital and a shooting attack on young people at a governing Labour Party youth camp.

The spacecraft Dawn of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has returned the first close-up image of the giant asteroid Vesta after entering its orbit for the first time last week, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced on Monday. 

Egypt has delayed the swearing-in of a new cabinet to Tuesday due to consultations on ministerial candidates, the state TV reported Monday.

 Hoare alleged in interviews with The New York Times newspaper and the BBC last year that the tabloid's former editor Andy Coulson, who went on to become press chief to British Prime Minister David Cameron, knew about voicemail hacking.

ASEAN's foreign ministers are meeting in Indonesia to take stock of progress in the grouping's key community-building and economic integration targets.