Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• February 18, 2013

Ukraine has reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan to resume imports of natural gas from the Central Asian country.

• February 16, 2013

Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, local media quoted the country's Supreme Leader as saying on Saturday, Feb 16.

• February 16, 2013

A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

• February 16, 2013

The Iran nuclear crisis has now reached a new and potentially dangerous equilibrium between stiff Western sanctions on the one hand and the rapid progress of Iran's nuclear program on the other.

• February 15, 2013

Oddball, outlandish and eternally secretive, the country has provided a rich seam of humour for the world's comedians.

• February 15, 2013

South African authorities will have to address two critical issues as the country faces signing for its new nuclear procurement megaplan.

• February 15, 2013

Ukraine is interested in the resumption of Turkmen natural gas supply, Azerbaijan's Trend news agency quoted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych as saying.

• February 14, 2013