Singapore's labour movement has launched a S$40 million initiative aimed at driving productivity and improving the skills and pay of low-wage workers.

 Pakistani residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of MuzaffarabadFloods caused by heavy monsoon rain have killed hundreds in Pakistan and Afghanistan, washing away whole villages, roads and bridges.

The Arab League said on July 29 that it would back face-to-face peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel when the Palestinians believe the time is right. 

Up to 140 people are feared dead after a boat carrying passengers and goods capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo on July 29, officials say.

A powerful explosion at a factory in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province Wednesday left at least five people dead and 28 seriously injured, the local government said.

Four plants that have grown from the “3000-year-old rice” excavated from Thanh Den archaeological site in Hanoi have been ripening. Meanwhile the rice husks have been sent to Japan to assess their age.

The Spanish recipient of the world’s first full face transplant has appeared in public to thank surgeons, and his donor’s family, according to media reports Tuesday.

European Union (EU) foreign ministers on Monday endorsed tougher sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, including measures to block oil and gas investment and curtail its refining and natural gas capability.

 1st Sergeant Buddy Hartlaub with the U.S. Army's 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division takes aim at a suspected Taliban position at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 22, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday said the United States is investigating the leak of over 90,000 classified reports about Afghanistan war.

A blistering summer heat wave in Japan has sent 15,000 people to hospital with heat stroke and caused at least 66 deaths in the past two months, the government said Tuesday.

BP said Monday no final decision has been reached on a change of management, after reports claimed chief executive Tony Hayward would resign in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

A former Khmer Rouge prison chief was found guilty by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Monday, in the first international trial for atrocities committed under the late 1970s regime.

 The new law requests transactions of risky derivatives that have been out of the sight of regulators to be moved to more transparent exchanges and conducted through independent clearinghouses.

Coping with climate change along with using energy more efficiently must be ASEAN’s top priority in the future, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the 28th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) which opened in Da Lat city in the central highland province of Lam Dong on July 22.