After two unsuccessful bids, the South Korean city of Pyeongchang finally clinched the hosting rights to the Winter Olympics after being declared winner for the 2018 edition.

A sister of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to become the new leader of the country’s government.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released without bail after prosecutors said they now doubt the credibility of the woman who’s accusing the French politician of attempted rape.

China has added another record to its name on Thursday, this time becoming the owner of the world’s longest bridge over water with the Qingdao-Haiwan Bridge or Jiaozhou Bay Bridge.

If you drive along Northbound EDSA-Forbes in Makati City, Philippines, you’ll see this billboard made of thousands of Fukien tea plants (Carmona retusa), a species capable of absorbing air pollutants.

At least 18 people were killed after Taliban gunmen attacked the Inter-Continental hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul late Tuesday.

The Cameroonian government of President Paul Biya has imposed a partial ban on the use of inter-city roads during nighttime.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for the arrest of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

A Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashed in Russia on Monday, killing 44 out of the 52 people on board.

The NATO operation in Libya has suffered another blow after an Allied Forces airstrike mistakenly targeted a convoy that belonged to opposition rebels.