Military talks between the U.S.-led United Nations Command and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) regarding the sinking of a Republic of Korea (RoK)’s warship have been rescheduled for July 15, U.N. Command spokesman David Oten said. The talks were initially slated for July 13.

Typhoon Conson ripped across the Philippines on July 14, killing 22 people, 20 wounded as it destroyed shanty towns and brought the nation’s capital to a standstill.

The 7th Asia Constitutional Court Conference opened at the State Palace in Jakarta , Indonesia on July 13 with the presence of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

 A sign stands outside a building at Lewisham hospital in south London November 29, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) The new British coalition government confirmed that it planned to shake-up England's National Health Service (NHS), in a series of changes hailed as the biggest in 60 years.

Wine-loving China, the world's fifth-biggest consumer, is not known for making top-quality wine but its potential is drawing elite vintners like Spain's Torres and France's Lafite.

At least four consortiums made up of private Chinese investors have approached US insurance giant AIG to acquire its Asian unit AIA, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Tuesday.

  Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro speaks on Cuban television July 12, 2010. It is the first speech on television since his recovery from hospital in July 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro appeared on Monday in the national TV program "Mesa Redonda (Round Table)" to analyze the situation in the Middle East and on the Korean Peninsula.

 A giant symbol of the euro currency outside the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.European governments agreed Monday to create tough new sanctions against countries that run excessive public deficits, including a halt of certain subsidies, EU president Herman Van Rompuy said.

 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has made a strong push for greater economic engagement between the United States and Asia.

A total solar eclipse drew a 11,000-kilometre arc over the Pacific Sunday, plunging remote isles into darkness in a heavenly display climaxing on mysterious Easter Island.

The Democratic Party of Japan's Upper House election defeat Sunday leaves it scrambling for coalition allies with the leadership of Prime Minister Naoto Kan increasingly vulnerable, analysts say.

 From the peace process with the Palestinians to Iran's nuclear program, U.S President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covered a wide range of thorny issues during their recent meeting in Washington.

At least 56 people were killed more than 100 others wounded in a suicide car bomber on July 9 in a market in Mohmand Agency in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said.

 

Chinese authorities have seized 38 tons of milk powder laced with a toxic additive that killed children and sparked a nationwide uproar in 2008, official media reported, underscoring the stubbornness of food safety failings.