The world's longest cross-sea bridge, spanning 36.48 kilometers across the mouth of the Jiaozhou Bay in eastern Shandong Province, opened to traffic on Thursday, four years after construction started.

The clashes between Egyptian security forces and young protestors in the Tahrir Square in central Cairo has injured 1,036 Egyptians till Wednesday, Heath Minster reported.

Twenty-five people were killed and up to 15 others were missing as a flash flood triggered by heavy rains devastated a riverside community in the Philippines, rescuers said on Wednesday.

France will invest 1bn euros in nuclear power despite warnings after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, President Nicolas Sarkozy says.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday unveiled an "underground missile silo" which the elite force said will allow them to launch the country's long-range ballistic missiles, state television reported.

The new head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil, on Monday promised "a new era" at the often-criticised organisation, warning staff that he would crack down on inefficiency.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday added two posts to his cabinet to oversee the country's nuclear crisis and post-tsunami reconstruction, amid intensifying pressure on him to resign.

A suicide bomb attack targeting a hospital in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 35 people and wounded more than two dozen, a brazen strike that rocked a maternity ward and claimed the lives of numerous women and children.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred offshore Japan’s northeastern prefecture of Iwate early June 23 (Vietnamese time), said the Japan Meteorological Agency.

European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes and maintain EU financial stability.

Flights are gradually resuming from airports in southern Australia after two days of cancellations caused by an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano.

Two bombs killed at least 25 people at a checkpoint outside a provincial Iraqi governor's house on Tuesday in the latest in a series of attacks against local government and security forces.

A total of 44 people were killed when a Tu-134 passenger plane crash-landed in Russia's northern republic of Karelie, local media reported Tuesday, citing sources from the Emergency Situations Ministry.

Japan's embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan resisted growing pressure from his own party on Monday to say exactly when he will step down in order to end a political stalemate.

Europe gave Greece a two-week deadline on Monday to drive through drastic new cuts, as the IMF warned that global economic stability rests on a single parliamentary vote in Athens.