China will enhance and improve macro-economic regulation to ensure stable and healthy economic development next year, said a statement released Sunday after the annual Central Economic Work Conference.

 Eight ASEAN embassies in Egypt held a festival of ASEAN family day on December 11 with the participation of foreign diplomats from ASEAN countries and their families.

Wwedish police said Sunday the two explosions that hit central Stockholm on Saturday night were "terror attacks" committed by what appeared to be a suicide bomber who killed himself and injured two people.

A top drug lord has been gunned down in Mexico after two days of shootouts between armed forces and members of a criminal organization, a national security spokesman said on December 10. 

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who is wanted in connection with a corruption investigation, has been arrested by police in Austria.  Sanader left Croatia on December 9 shortly before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution, and the authorities later issued a warrant for his arrest.

Haiti's electoral authorities said on December 9 they would urgently recheck vote tally sheets from the Caribbean country's troubled presidential elections to try to defuse a dispute over the results that has triggered nationwide unrest.

Colombian rescuers have found 53 bodies after a landslide in the northwest of Colombia, official sources said on December 9.

European Union (EU) and Russia have settled bilateral issues on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Commission said on Tuesday.

Three civilians have been slightly injured so far and 40 youngsters have been detained in Athens on Monday afternoon during clashes between protesters and police which gradually spread across the city center, according to the latest reports by Greek media.

U.S. military leaders on Friday voiced their disagreement on the issue of repealing a decade old ban on gays and lesbians to serve openly in uniform.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on Monday arranging to meet with British police, his lawyer said, as the net tightened around the man behind the release of a hoard of secret US diplomatic cables.

Iran returned to talks on Monday over its disputed nuclear programme after a 14-month break, as world powers sounded out Tehran's intentions after it claimed to have taken a new step in making fissile material.

The number of examinees taking the national civil servant examination on Dec. 5 declined for the first time since the test was created in 1989, although more than 1 million people still took the test, a top State Administration of Civil Service official said.

As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide Sunday that swept over 10 houses near Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, Red Cross relief workers said.

Deadly cold and heavy snowfall continued to sweep across Europe on Thursday, snarling traffic and causing at least 18 deaths in Poland and other countries.