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The Japanese Coast Guard has rescued a Chinese man who crashed while trying to land a hot-air balloon on islands at the center of a territorial dispute between China and Japan.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is making another foray into the Middle East, hoping to give momentum to peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Officials say he will present both sides with a broad outline, or framework, of what a final deal could look like.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is united following a political purge that included the execution of his uncle. In a New Year's day speech, Kim also called for better relations with South Korea while warning Seoul and Washington that conflict on the peninsula could lead to a nuclear catastrophe.

As violence continues in the Central African Republic, the conditions for aid organizations like Doctors Without Borders have become dangerous. Twice in the last week, hospitals and clinics had to be evacuated when armed men entered the facilities.

Civilians at the UN House compound on the southwestern outskirts of Juba, South Sudan.

The economy is again facing the prospect—or threat—that the Federal Reserve may make another attempt to begin to "exit" from its years-long "quantitative easing" (QE) which has made all markets in the world dependent on an inherently hyperinflationary, and actually "no-exit" policy. That policy has already constituted a crushing blow to the U.S. economy, and a crime against the U.S. Constitutional policy of national banking and credit which was known as the Hamiltonian, or "American System of economy."

Representatives of South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar, are launching peace talks in Ethiopia in a bid to end spiraling civil unrest that has claimed more than 1,000 lives. The peace talks mark the first meeting between the two sides since the conflict erupted in mid-December.

Rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and government forces are trying to improve their battlefield positions in the remaining weeks before peace talks are due to take place in Geneva between the warring sides, analysts say.

WFP has provided food assistance to more than 500,000 displaced people across the Central African Republic (CAR).

Wide view of the Security Council.