US employment growth slowed sharply in May, with only 54,000 net new jobs added during the month.

Scores of migrants are feared drowned off Tunisia's after a Europe-bound boat from Libya capsized, officials say.

The defense ministers of the United States and China held talks in Singapore on June 3 which aides described as cordial, as Malaysia's prime minister called for the region to avoid taking sides and slipping into another version of the Cold War.

After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the disease as new data show this is also the best way to prevent the virus from spreading.

A spokesperson of the US State Department reaffirmed that US opposes the use of force or threat of force in the East Sea by any party and supports the ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea.

Thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets across Syria after June 3 prayers, in defiance of the ongoing crackdown on dissent.

At least 21 people have died in twin bomb attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed an 'outlaw gang' among his tribal enemies for a shelling attack on a mosque in the presidential compound that slightly injured him and several aides and killed seven people.

The US House of Representatives on June 3 adopted a resolution rebuking the Obama administration for launching military operations in Libya without congressional approval.

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faced the UN war crimes tribunal on June 3 as a defiant general who never lost a battle, denying the charges against him as "obnoxious" and "monstrous."