Two members of the crew in a simulated mission to Mars have completed their first walk on the "surface" of the Red Planet, as a part of the Mars-500 project, Russia's Mission Control Centre outside Moscow said on February 14.

The military has sought to persuade Egyptians to end the demonstrations and strikes that culminated in the resignation of the president, and urged their countrymen to get back to work.

A small passenger plane crashed into a hill outside the capital of Honduras on February 14, killing all 14 people aboard, officials said.

Country trio Lady Antebellm and pop star Lady Gaga were among the winners at the most prestigious ceremony in the music calendar, the Grammy Awards.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on February 13 appointed Fereydoun Abbasi - who survived an assassination attempt late last year - as the new head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, the state-run Press TV reported.

At least 12 people were injured when a bomb exploded in southern Thailand on February 13, police said.

Egypt's new military authorities say they are dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution.

Cambodia on February 12 showed readiness to attend the upcoming ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting where its border dispute with Thailand will be discussed.

Egypt's military authorities have pledged to oversee a transition to civilian rule, a day after the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

Up to 28 people were killed and 22 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims outside the city of Samarra in Salahudin province in Iraq on Saturday, a provincial police source said.