Residents of Manila and northern Philippines braced for more flooding and possible landslides on Thursday as Typhoon Sepat gathered strength northeast of the archipelago en route to Taiwan.
The temperature hit a record high in Japan on Thursday, with the extreme summer heat killing at least 13 people across the nation this week, officials said.
President Hu Jintao discussed the Iranian nuclear issue and bilateral ties with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday before the start of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit Thursday.
GLOBAL stock markets tumbled again yesterday as persistent jitters over a growing credit crunch prompted fears that the United States economy - the world's biggest - may be tipped into a recession next year.
An earthquake measuring 7.9 has hit the coast of Peru, centred 160km (100 miles) from the capital, Lima, the US Geological Survey reports.
Suicide bombings that claimed at least 250 victims in Iraq were in revenge for the stoning to death of a teenage girl, it emerged last night.
One of Britain's top police officers called for urgent moves to stem a rising tide of youth violence on Wednesday after a 47-year-old father of three was kicked to death by a group of young drunks.
Already stung by a two-year rise in gasoline prices, American consumers now face sharply higher prices for foods they can't do without.
Catholic leader believes it would help ease tensions between religions
A Russian region of Ulyanovsk has found a novel way to fight the nation's birth-rate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate.
The world is on the verge of "a new and more serious era of water scarcity" than ever before, is the ominous warning coming out of an international water conference here.
China may be just three years away from being able to disrupt US military satellites in a regional conflict, a senior US military leader said Tuesday, citing a recent anti-satellite test and other advances.
For years, Americans have been able to pay for enormous trade deficits by exchanging IOU's for imported consumer goods.
Government has admitted extension of ECJ powers under Constitution
Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday they were encouraged by the "positive" change in the position of some European countries toward the Islamist movement.