Family members and friends said their final goodbyes to the late Dr Toh Chin Chye on Tuesday morning at the Mandai Crematorium.

The United States on Monday lifted one of its many sanctions against Myanmar in recognition of recent positive moves toward political reform in the country after decades of direct military rule.

Citigroup said it has won permission to issue credit cards in China, a first for a foreign bank amid complaints regulators largely shut out overseas competitors from tapping the massive market.

The European Union has no plans to withdraw the head of its delegation in Syria, a spokesman said Tuesday, after the United States, Britain, Belgium and Italy and France recalled their ambassadors.

Williams showed off their new FW34 car for the 2012 World Championship season here on Tuesday hoping for better form after what was the outfit's worst season ever.

Madonna will begin her ninth world tour in Tel Aviv in May, her promoter said Tuesday, passing through Europe and the Americas and returning to Australia for the first time in 20 years.

A top cram school in education-obsessed South Korea used tiny audio recorders and cameras hidden in pens to record exam questions and then passed them on to students, prosecutors said Tuesday.

An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's Android software were shaping up as true winners in the market.