The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it was prepared to continue supporting Greece as it struggles with a debt crisis as long as the government adopts agreed economic measures.

At least 39 people have died from an outbreak in Germany of a killer strain of E. coli bacteria but the rate of new infections continues to drop, authorities said on Thursday.

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday, in response to the appointment of Ayman al-Zawahiri as al-Qaeda's new leader, that who runs al-Qaeda "barely matters."

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday spelt out military spending cuts for the Congress, saying reduced spending will result in a smaller force that goes to fewer places and does fewer things.

Airborne ash from a Chilean volcano dissipated enough on Wednesday for flights to resume in Argentina's capital, but it spread further across the globe worsening travel chaos in Australia.

Earthquake-weary Christchurch residents on Tuesday set about cleaning up after a series of powerful tremors, as aftershocks continued to rattle the New Zealand city.

NEC Corp. and Tohoku University said they aim to bring the new semiconductor technology into practical use within five years, potentially reducing the estimated two percent of household electricity wasted through the standby mode.

The yellow-clad People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) organised a march from Lumpini Park to Silom Road in Bangkok on June 10 in order to raise awareness on their "vote-no" campaign.

The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory, NASA's first ever satellite to study the saltiness of Earth's oceans, is in excellent health after its launch early Friday, initial telemetry reports showed.

Officials say the bomber was his own teenage niece, who had joined the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

 At least 34 people have been killed and 90 wounded after two explosions ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.

Three airlines have canceled flights out of two airports in Argentina's capital city on June 9 because of the ash cloud from the Puyehue volcano in Chile, according to media reports.

The deadly strain for the E. coli outbreak was found again on cucumbers, authorities of German state Saxony-Anhalt said on Wednesday.