The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that a Swiss staff member was killed on Thursday by a shell that landed close to its office in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday, contradicting Nigerian military reports that he had been killed.
Bank of Japan policymakers meeting next week will start debating how to justify maintaining their rosy inflation forecasts even as a slew of weak data will likely force them to cut their economic growth projections later this month.
Human rights groups condemned on Friday a Myanmar government plan that could force thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims into detention camps indefinitely if they do not qualify for citizenship.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday that the yen's weakening is broadly positive for the Japanese economy as long as it reflected the underlying fundamentals.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked officials on Friday to re-think restrictions on members of the public wearing face-coverings such as burqas in parliament following a public backlash against the measures.
Britain will quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that theWestminster parliament has the final say over its rulings, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives said on Friday.
Pierre Moscovici must answer further written questions from the European Parliament's economic affairs committee by late on Sunday before it considers again his nomination as EU economics commissioner, lawmakers said on Friday.
Two of the men held by Thai police confessed to murdering the British tourists and raping Hannah Witheridge. DNA samples from the men were found on Witheridge's body.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have quelled fears of the spread of deadly diseases like Ebola and MERS as 2 million Muslims made their way to Mecca for the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Thursday.
According to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the effect the Ebola outbreak has had in poor West African countries is a reflection of the dangers of global inequality.
Serra and his partner Maria Herrera were found dead on Wednesday in their Caracas home after being stabbed and possibly tortured. Government officials have launched an investigation into their murders.
Censors on the U.S. Motion Picture Association of America have given an award-winning British LGBT title from Cannes film festival a very restrictive rating, citing fans of the movie to call the board homophobic.
Parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann have received an onslaught of online abuse and death threats in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.
Typhoon Phanfone is intensifying in the Pacific Ocean, possibly to super typhoon status, as it travels along a projected path that shows the storm making a direct hit on Japan's Ryukyu Islands this weekend before continuing on to mainland Japan early next week.
Residents living on the south and southwestern coasts of Mexico are being pummeled with tropical storms this hurricane season, and as of Wednesday evening yet another tropical depression has formed in the area and is forecast to become a tropical storm by Thursday.
In the heart of Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated districts on earth, an abandoned Hong Kong police van is enveloped in the student-led demonstrations paralyzing swathes of the city.
