NEW DELHI - India's Health Ministry has launched a nationwide campaign to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, officials said on Thursday.
TOKYO - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party on Tuesday filed a censure motion against a senior minister in the latest education scandal to hit the government.
MUMBAI - They were named after a legendary Indian queen and were synonymous with Mumbai for half a century but the last Premier Padmini taxis will soon embark on their final journey - to the scrapyard.
CANBERRA - The Australian government has reached a settlement of around A$90 million ($68 million) with more than 1,900 asylum-seekers who sued over their treatment at an immigration camp in Papua New Guinea, a minister and lawyers said on Wednesday.
LONDON - People who are aged 75 or older and take aspirin daily to ward off heart attacks face a significantly elevated risk of serious or even fatal bleeding and should be given heartburn drugs to minimize the danger, a 10-year study has found.
ANKARA - At last, the summer comes and about 17.5 million Turkish students began their nearly three-month break. But some of them will have to continue studying for next year in order to be successful in several exams that will determine their future.
WASHINGTON - US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denied alleged involvement in any collusion with Russia during last year's presidential campaign, calling it an "appalling and detestable lie".
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the door to the European Union remains open to the United Kingdom as long as exit negotiations are not concluded, but it would be difficult to walk back once negotiations start.
BEIJING - US college student Otto Frederick Warmbier has been released by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after more than a year of imprisonment, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Rescuers struggled on Wednesday to reach villages hit by massive landslides that have killed at least 140 people while also burying roads and cutting power in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said.
HAVANA - Rumors have been hovering in the streets of Havana in the past few days about a possible rollback in the United States' policy toward the Caribbean island, reversing the historic detente initiated in 2014 by former president Barack Obama.