SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's foreign exchange trading fell in October due to lower demand for FX swaps and the U.S. currency, central bank data showed Friday.

The index of domestic manufacturing supply, which includes locally produced and imported manufacturing products, stood at 103.1 in the July-September quarter, down 0.4 percent from a year earlier, ...

News Corp Australia newspapers reported that the fire was caused by an engine explosion on Qantas flight QF520 to Brisbane, which departed Sydney just before 1 p.m. local time. Flight tracking data ...

SAO PAULO, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- An explosion at a residential building in the Brazilian city of Maceio killed at least three people, including a 10-year-old, and injured five, the fire department ...

CANBERRA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Life expectancy at birth in Australia has fallen for the second consecutive year, official figures released on Friday revealed.

KATHMANDU, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Four people died and six others were wounded after two passenger buses collided in Nepal's Chitwan district on Friday morning. A passenger bus and an electric microbus ...

CANBERRA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- An Australian Border Force (ABF) technical outage has caused major processing delays at international airports around the country. The outage on Friday morning affected ...

SYDNEY, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Much of Australia is facing a hot and wet summer, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has forecast. "Overall the maximum and minimum temperatures have been well above average ...