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At the start of President Park Geun-hye's term, physician Kim Sang-man was a frequent guest at Seoul's Blue House, exempt from thorough security checks, giving injections derived from human placenta to South Korea's most important patient.

The UN's deputy chief is warning that "the nightmare scenario" is rising for a hacking attack on a nuclear power plant's computer system that causes the uncontrolled release of radiation.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad congratulated Syrians following his government's recapture of Aleppo, where an operation is underway to evacuate rebels and civilians.

As China relaxed its decades old one child policy this year, millions of women are being helped by hospitals to remove intrauterine devices implanted to prevent child birth.

Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die if they don't get treatment in the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram.

Authorities say a Lufthansa flight has been diverted to New York's John F Kennedy International Airport due to a bomb threat.

President-elect Donald Trump has said the US-China relationship is one of the most important relationships that his administration has to improve, days after he slammed Beijing for currency manipulation and military build up in South China Sea.

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, the media reported on Saturday.

Alternating traffic imposed in Ile-de-France region since December 6 on high pollution level, will be removed over the weekend due to an expected improvement in air quality, Paris prefecture said on Friday.

As many as 206,582 Indians are currently enrolled in American universities and institutes of higher education, registering a growth of over 14 percent, with most of them studying Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) courses, according to n...

President-elect Donald Trump named fast-food executive Andy Puzder to head the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday, drawing criticism from labor advocates worried about his opposition to a higher minimum wage and government regulation of the workplace.

Time magazine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year.

Yemen on Tuesday appeared to reject a U.N. plan to end its civil war, saying the roadmap would create a "dangerous international precedent" by legitimising the rebellion against the country's internationally recognised government.

"Nuclear terrorists" can strike anywhere, the head of the UN atomic watchdog warned on Monday at the start of a week-long ministerial conference on preventing misuse of radioactive materials and attacks on facilities.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is a clever man and will quickly understand his new responsibilities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with NTV TV.

Austria's Freedom Party conceded defeat on Sunday in its bid to elect Europe's first far-right president.