The US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a high-stakes 10-day visit to reaffirm the robust security alliance and warn against North Korea's possible provocations.
The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued around 3000 migrants off the Libyan coast on Saturday, as the numbers of those attempting to reach Europe from Africa rises amid good weather.
Iran has indicated its support for extending a crucial oil output agreement by world's biggest producers that helped stabilize prices in markets since its implementation early this year.
A powerful blast that ripped through a bus convoy carrying evacuees near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday killed around 112 people and injuring 48 others.
The White House top foreign policy adviser reported on Sunday that North Korea's missile launch did not come as a surprise to the US.
On Sunday, South Korean officials called the latest ballistic missile launch by North Korea a threat to the entire world.
The night before the constitutional referendum, the Kurdish Workers Party militants attacked a car carrying the Turkish governing party representative, killing a guard.
Turkish citizens started casting their ballots in the constitutional referendum on Sunday aimed at increasing the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's power.
The Mexican Attorney General's office reported the former Veracruz state governor Javier Duarte, wanted for fraud, had been detained in Guatemala on Saturday.
Microsoft's security manager Phillip Misner said in a blog post that the software up-to-date users were protected from the alleged NSA spying tools disclosed online.
Latin America's leading engineering company Oderbrecht is reported to have paid around $3.3B in bribes to the region's politicians over nine years.
An anonymous US official said that it was almost certain that the failed missile launch by North Korea was not an ICBM; another official said it was a land-based missile.
Donald Trump requested a ride in the gold-pleated carriage during his visit in London this autumn, though confused UK's security forces noted higher risk factor.
President Rafael Correa revealed that Ecuador will mark one-year anniversary of 7.8-magnitude earthquake, that killed 673 people, by holding open-air mass.
More than 200,000 visitors attended traditional trams parade in Russia's capital, celebrating the 118th anniversary of one of the Moscow transport system.
US and South Korean military officials said that North Korea unsuccessfully launched its missile, a day after a military parade in Pyongyang warned US among rising tension.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through dozens of US cities to request Trump release tax returns, showing the public care about that issue.
Bijan Zanganeh, the Iran's Oil Minister, said that the larger half oil producer, including Iran, support an expansion of output cuts by non-OPEC and OPEC countries.
More than 1000 people registered at the Iranian Interior Ministry to run for next month's presidential elections.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a final push for votes in a referendum on expanding his powers, as the authorities said they had foiled a possible Islamist militant plot against the poll.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend rallies on Saturday, April 15, the day that marks the traditional deadline for filing income tax returns.
The death toll in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Iran's northwest province of eastern Azarbaijan rose to 30 as rescue teams deployed.
An Iraqi military officer reported that the Islamic State militants had launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated region in western Mosul.
The Trump administration has declined to label China a currency manipulator, but is keeping the country on its list of those to monitor, according to a new report from the US Treasury Department.