NATO aircraft plan to fly 198 sorties over Libya on Wednesday, which would be the highest for a single day since NATO assumed full command of operations on March 31, the alliance's spokeswoman said.

After notching a rare victory by stopping highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific, workers at Japan's flooded nuclear power complex turned to their next task early Thursday: injecting nitrogen to prevent more hydrogen explosions.

Militants in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan torched two tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, a police official said.

Portugal's caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said that he has asked the European Union for financial assistance.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on April 6 held the first online dialogue with exporters, aiming to provide them with the latest and accurate information about the European Union market, which was Vietnam’s second largest export market in 2010.

Asia's developing economies are expected to grow by just under 8 percent in 2011, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo has denied reports he is surrendering after troops loyal to his rival surrounded his residence in Abidjan.

Around 150 people were missing after a boat carrying migrants from North Africa capsized in heavy seas near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa early on April 5, coast guard officials said.

A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.

The Ecuadorian government on April 5 asked the US ambassador in that country, Heather Hodges, to leave as soon as possible, the state-run Andes news agency reported.