Police said Thursday they may pursue sedition charges against speakers at a mass rally organized by Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to protest against alleged election fraud.

China criticized Japan on Thursday for lodging a diplomatic protest against a Chinese state media commentary calling into question Japanese sovereignty over the southern Ryukyu Islands, which include Okinawa.

Italian prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly bribing a left-wing senator 3 million euros (US$3.9 million) to join his party.

At least 33 people died Wednesday when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road into a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said.

Investigations were under way Thursday into who lobbed Vegemite sandwiches at the Australian prime minister as she toured a Queensland school.

The unusual award of a top medal for bravery to a North Korean traffic policewoman has fueled speculation that she might have intervened in an incident that had threatened the life of leader Kim Jong Un.

The first task for Prime Minister Najib Razak is to form the Cabinet. And we can expect the process to be different this time.

It is close to midnight and Imelda Marcos is dancing in a trademark pink butterfly gown at a small Philippine town fiesta with adoring voters who still revere her dead dictator husband.

New Zealand's central bank has intervened in the currency market for the first time in five years to try to curb the local dollar's rise.

Japan does not plan to revise past apologies to neighboring countries for atrocities committed by its Imperial Army before and during World War II, top government officials said Wednesday.