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Rio de Janeiro authorities and street cleaners say they have reached a new agreement to end an eight-day strike which has left tonnes of rubbish on the streets of the Brazilian city.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been elected to the country’s rubber-stamp parliament with a unanimous vote from his district, state media say.

“United States now borrows about $4 billion per day, nearly half of that from China”,  — Ian Bremmer has stated in one of his book in 2012.

The strategic location of Bangladesh which connects the nations of South and Southeast Asia helps Dhaka to play a pivotal role in regional forums like Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), ASEAN and the Forum for…

State media in North Korea is using poetry to encourage people to vote in forthcoming elections, it appears.

A German tourist who went missing for almost three weeks while walking in Australia’s outback survived by eating flies, police say.

Are the changes underway in Myanmar revolutionary or evolutionary?

At the beginning of the twentieth century, President Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy was, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Events in Ukraine are moving fast.

In an emotional interview the departing Afghan president tried to explain why he has been such a harsh critic of the 12-year-old US war effort in his country.

The food you choose to eat has drastic effects on your body, and we don’t just mean your waistline.

St. Helena, Calif. — With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.

The investment firm run by the US billionaire Warren Buffett has reported a record profit for 2013.

A video decoding Indian headshakes has gone viral, attracting over a million hits in a week.

British spy agency GCHQ intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world, according to a report in the Guardian.

An “unreserved apology” had been issued by the government to the family of a woman who was sent a letter encouraging her to find work even though she has been in a coma for two months.

Shazia Saleem jokes that she started her food company simply because she was hungry.

Facebook has quietly shuttered its three-year-old email service that gave users “@facebook.com” email addresses.

Three journalists from al-Jazeera’s English news channel go on trial in Egypt on Thursday, in a case which campaigners say is part of a sweeping crackdown on freedom of speech, reports the BBC’s Orla Guerin in Cairo.

A Chinese general says the country’s thick smog is its best defence against US laser weapons, it’s been reported.

Doctored images of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are being circulated by media organisations in the region, making political points and exhibiting dark humour, as tension and violence has peaked in Ukraine in recent days.

US President Barack Obama has met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, US officials say.

It is not for the first time that the dispute about the possibility of Ukraine splitting into two – the West and the East – is emerging.

he root causes for the violence by Burmese Buddhists against Muslims in Myanmar are complex. Contrary to the simplified narratives carried by the international media, a nuanced understanding of the situation is needed to attain a viable solution.

On Friday, Feb 14, 92 prisoners escaped from their prison in the Libyan town of Zliten.

Hostilities involving religion have significantly increased globally.

Preparations have been made for women to participate in the third municipal elections next year.

Shenali Waduge With respect to Sri Lanka, there are some facts that the world needs to take into consideration.

A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.

China’s central bank has removed nearly $8bn (£4.7bn) from the money markets in a bid to control the amount of credit in the country’s financial system.