A $15 billion Russian aid package for Ukraine began to take shape on Thursday as Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich went public in defense of the deal, but offered no concessions to persuade thousands of protesters to leave the streets.
Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman talks to the media at the Beijing International Airport in Beijing, Dec 19, 2013, before leaving for Pyongyang.
Representatives from 67 countries and regions from all over the world took part in the 53rd Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo December 17, 2013.
Parents must teach children right from wrong, and safe from unsafe, while youngsters are watching cartoons, experts said.
The United States has named former tennis star Billie Jean King, one of the first prominent athletes to publicly acknowledge her homosexuality, to be in the U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where Russia's anti-gay policies have stirred controversy.
Several inches of snow was forecasted to fall across the northeastern US on Tuesday as winter storm warnings were put in place.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was sworn in for a third term after being reelected in a vote in the lower house of parliament on Tuesday.
When Huang Yong was a young man studying bass, jazz music held little appeal. "When I was 20 years old, I couldn't bear listening to Miles Davis for 10minutes," says the founder of the Nine Gates Jazz Festival.
Russia agreed a $15-billion bailout for Ukraine and slashed the price of gas exports on Tuesday under a deal that keeps the cash-strapped country in Moscow's orbit but fuelled street protests in Kiev.
A South China tiger's fatal attack on a keeper at the Shanghai Zoo on Tuesday morning exposes shortcomings in the zoo's management, experts said.
US first lady Michelle Obama reads to young patients and their families at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, December 16, 2013.
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