China and Japan have agreed to set up a hotline between the prime ministers of both countries.

About eight people have been killed after gunmen attacked a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

German President Horst Koehler says he is resigning immediately, following criticism of remarks he made about German military deployments abroad.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, said on May 30 that the country has got back to normal after the government lifted a curfew, imposed in the wake of a series of anti-government protests.

The first tropical storm of the season killed at least 101 people across Central America, triggering flash floods and mudslides that swept away homes and destroyed roads, officials said.

Central America’s death toll from landslides and flooding triggered by the year's first tropical storm surged to 83 on Sunday, as authorities struggled to clear roads of debris and reach cut-off communities.

BP engineers on Sunday rushed to implement another high-risk plan to stem the devastating Gulf oil spill now being described as likely the worst environmental disaster in US history.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has stated explicitly that the Palestinian Islamist group will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from Palestinian land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.

A roadside bomb struck a police patrol on Sunday in the remote northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, killing seven officers, officials said, in the latest violence blamed on the Taliban.

Thailand’s government has lifted a nighttime curfew that has been imposed in Bangkok and 23 other cities and provinces over the past 10 days.