A Canadian aboriginal chief in the third week of a hunger strike is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to "open his heart" and meet with native leaders angered by his policies as small impromptu protests

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US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr, who headed coalition forces that drove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm, has died, former President George H.W. Bush said in a statement on

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South Korea on Friday nominated its trade minister, Taeho Bark, to succeed Pascal Lamy as director-general of the World Trade Organisation, the WTO said. Aside from Bark, 60, seven other people have applied for the

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Residents of Central African Republic's riverside capital Bangui fled in overloaded cars and boats on Friday and others stockpiled food and water as rebels forces paused at the city gates for cease-fire talks. An insurgency

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North Korea has repaired extensive rain damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a detonation on two weeks notice, a US think-tank said Friday, citing satellite imagery analysis. With the UN Security Council

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A Japanese man reached the world record age of 115 years and 253 days on Friday, the Guinness Book of Records said. Jirouemon Kimura, of Kyotango city, near Kyoto, was born on April 19, 1897,

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Jesco von Puttkamer, a German-American scientist who worked in the early US rocket programme alongside Wernher von Braun and had a decades-long career in the US space programme, has died at age 79, NASA said

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Residents of Montreal and other cities in Quebec province armed with shovels dug themselves out Friday after parts of Canada witnessed their heaviest snowfalls for at least four decades. Some towns in the province reported

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Families of victims of a deadly air strike in Afghanistan that killed more than 90 people in 2009 have filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Germany, a lawyer said Friday. Karim Popal, an attorney representing

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China has fixed March 5, 2013, as the date it will convene a key legislative session, state media reported Friday, with new Communist Party chief Xi Jingping set to become president during the two-week meeting.

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