Thousands march against Hong Kong leader CY Leung
Thousands of people in Hong Kong have taken to the streets on the first day of the new year to call for the city's chief executive to resign
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Thousands of people in Hong Kong have taken to the streets on the first day of the new year to call for the city's chief executive to resign
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for an end to confrontation between the two Koreas, technically still at war in the absence of a peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict ...
Minutes before the midnight deadline of the fiscal cliff Democrats started celebrating a partial victory – it appeared the White House and Senate leaders had cut a deal ...
A patent filed by Apple describes a wind tech design that converts rotational energy into heat, and can then release it to generate electricity on demand.
Pakistan has freed the Afghan Taliban's ex-justice minister, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, and three other Taliban prisoners, officials say.
US President Barack Obama has increased pressure on Republicans to accept a deal aimed at stopping the country going over a "fiscal cliff".
Pyinyananda was chanting with dozens of fellow Buddhist monks when an object landed in the folds of his orange robes and blew up.
China has tightened its rules on internet usage to enforce a previous requirement that users fully identify themselves to service providers.
International correspondents look back at events that helped define the year for them.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sacked Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi, the sole woman in his cabinet