US President Barack Obama makes phone calls at the Oval Office in the White House.
Yuan Zai, the first Taiwan-born baby panda, climbs a wood log inside an enclosure as visitors take pictures at the Taipei City Zoo in Taipei, January 6, 2014.
India Sunday successfully launched its first heavy lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D5 using indigenous cryogenic fuel technology, after two previous failures.
The 2014 national graduate school entrance examination, which took place over the weekend, saw a drop in the number of candidates this year.
Experts and scientists aboard Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, are planning three possible routes to take advantage of good weather from Monday to Wednesday, a senior official said.
A Chinese navy frigate arrived in the Cypriot port of Limassol on Saturday at the start of its mission to provide security support to the operation for removing Syria's chemical weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a friendly ice hockey match in the Bolshoi Ice Palace near Sochi January 4, 2014.
Israel and the Palestinians are making progress towards reaching a framework peace agreement but they are not there yet, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters on Saturday.
The world is recalculating the abacus' added historical and contemporary value since the device was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List last month.
Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt earned three-set victories on Saturday to set up a meeting in the Brisbane International final, renewing a rivalry that stretches back to the last millennium.
A major snowstorm producing blizzard-like conditions hammered the northeastern United States on Friday, causing more than 1,000 US flight delays and cancellations, paralyzing road travel, and closing schools and government offices.
The giant inflatable duck created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in Keelung, Taiwan.
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