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People rest on the floor at a evacuation center after the recent tsunami and earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, on Wednesday.

Police forces in Yemen have killed atleast six people, including a 15 year old student and injured many more, after they attacked anti- government protesters in the capital city Sanaa.

China's envoy to the Middle East, Wu Sike, has said that Beijing is not competing with Washington in exerting influence in the area, but is confident about its ties with the region.

This morning the Holy Father received members of the National Association of Italian Local Authorities.

In his address to them, the Pope highlighted how "the multiplicity of subjects and of situations is not incompatible with the unity of the nation, which is being reaffirmed by this 150th anniversary currently being celebrated. Unity and plurality are, at various levels including the ecclesial level, values which enrich one another, if the right reciprocal balance is maintained.

Hundreds of police maintained heavy security at two busy commercial sites in China's capital Sunday for the fourth week of planned 'Jasmine' rallies against the government.

Members of the public listen Thursday as the Committee on Homeland Security holds the first in a series of hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community.

A view in Tokyo in the aftermath of the earthquake

Assessments by UN staff in Abyei suggest more than half the population has left town, with the number of displaced ranging from 20,000 to 25,000.

External affairs minister SM Krishna said he has expressed India's concerns over the rescue of Indian sailors taken hostage by Somali pirates, to Egypt.

Around 1400 Indians have been flown out of strife-torn Libya in the preceding 24 hours, which takes the total number of persons evacuated so far to over 12,000.