Pakistani troops have killed five Indian soldiers in an attack on a military post in Indian Kashmir, Indian officials say.
Tens of thousands have gathered at a peace memorial park in Hiroshima to mark the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city, as anti-atomic sentiment runs high in Japan.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has criticized Wests bull-in-a-china-shop-like policies in the Middle East affairs especially in Syria.
Soon after taking office, President Obama pledged to open a new inquiry into the deaths of perhaps thousands of Taliban prisoners of war at the hands of US-allied Afghan fighters in late 2001.
American ex-CIA agent Edward Snowden has been offered a job by Russia's top social networking site, hours after the former intelligence contractor received a year-long asylum in Russia.
Taiwanese lawmakers have brawled in parliament over a bill on the fate of a controversial and nearly-completed nuclear power plant.
A US airstrike has killed at least five Afghan policemen during a joint operation against insurgents in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO says.
Civilian casualties in the Afghan war has risen by 23 percent in the first half of this year due to Taliban attacks and increased fighting between insurgents and government forces, the UN says.
Pakistani lawmakers have elected Mamnoon Hussain, the candidate for the ruling party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, as the country's 12th president.
Taliban insurgents armed with mortars and grenades have launched a major attack on a jail in northwest Pakistan, escaping with 230 prisoners including hardline militants after a gunbattle with security forces, officials say.