The last U.S. combat brigade in Iraq has crossed into Kuwait, leaving Iraq ahead of the August 31 deadline, NBC news reported on Wednesday night.

The Thai army commander said his army is ready to maintain peace and order on the Thai-Cambodian border.

The life of millions of Pakistan 's flood victims are endangered due to the outbreak of epidemic diseases resulted from the worst floods in the country's history.

The Foreign Minister of Vietnam, which holds the ASEAN chair in 2010, has released a statement welcoming the Myanmar Government’s announcement to hold general elections on November 7.

 Nearly 80 percent of the oil spilled from a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is still in the gulf, US scientists have estimated, challenging a more optimistic assessment by the US government earlier in the month.

The United Nations Children 's Fund (UNICEF) on Monday warned that close to 3.5 million children in the flood-ravaged areas of Pakistan are at risk of contracting fatal diseases carried through contaminated water and insects.

A plane crash during a lightning storm in Colombia on Monday killed one person and injured another 120, with officials calling it a "miracle" that more people did not die in the accident.

Russia on Monday said it was beating back the country's worst ever wildfires, including one close to a secret nuclear site, as thunderstorms and torrential rain drenched parts of the parched country.

China and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are expected to sign an agreement on nuclear safety, as the UN nuclear watchdog's chief, Yukiya Amano, visits China.

  (File pic) Thai PM Abhisit VejjajivaThe Thai government said Monday it was lifting a state of emergency in three more provinces, but not Bangkok, almost three months after the end of deadly opposition protests in the capital.

South Korea and the United States launched a new round of war games Monday involving tens of thousands of troops in a huge show of force against North Korea, which has threatened fiery retaliation.

LISBON: Fifty people were evacuated from a small village situated in Portugal's Peneda-Geres national park on Thursday, where three fires were still burning, the civil defence agency said.

A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Ecuador and parts of Peru on Thursday, but its epicentre was deep underground in a remote Amazonian region and only one injury and light damage was reported.

Ten Vietnamese businesses have been listed in the top 500 retailers in Asia-Pacific as recently announced by Singaporean magazine Retail Asia.

The United Nations said on Monday it is to appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan's flood victims after the crisis eclipsed the scale of the devastating 2004 tsunami.