Warga Paris tidak bisa lagi menggunakan kendaraan pribadi mereka seenaknya. Hari ini ada aturan baru yang membatasi pemakaian mobil dan sepeda motor pribadi. Masyarakat hanya diperbolehkan menggunakan mobil pribadi dua hari sekali. Pembatasan juga berlaku untuk sepeda motor. Hanya kendaraan...

SBY berterimakasih kepada Ahsan/Hendra dan Tantowi/Liliyana di All England Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono senang dengan prestasi yang Bulutangkis Indonesia di bawah asuhan Gita Wirjawan yang menjadi Ketua Umum PBSI. Presiden memberikan selamat. Selamat itu diberikan kepada Pasangan ganda...

Brasil menandai 100 hari menuju Piala Dunia dengan pengumuman dari Presiden Dilma Rousseff bahwa kota-kota yang menjadi tuan rumah akan bermandikan warna kuning dan hijau pada malam hari. Badan sepak bola dunia FIFA mengkritik Brasil atas lambatnya persiapan mereka setelah negara tersebut...

Film Gravity berhasil memborong tujuh Piala Oscar ke-86. Dalam acara yang digelar di Dolby Theatre, Minggu, 2 Maret 2014, atau Senin, 3 Maret 2014 waktu Indonesia, Gravity memboyong tujuh piala dari sepuluh nominasi yang diperoleh. Tujuh penghargaan yang berhasil disabet film Gravity untuk...

Drama perbudakan “12 Years a Slave” meraih Oscar sebagai film terbaik, Minggu (2/3), menjadi film pertama dari seorang sutradara berkulit hitam yang memenangkan penghargaan tertinggi industri film dalam sejarah 86 tahun Academy Awards. Film dari sutradara Inggris Steve McQueen itu...

As Mexico basks in the glow of its first best director Oscar for Alfonso Cuaron and his blockbuster film Gravity, a new generation of homegrown filmmakers wonders if the magic of the golden statuette will rub off on them. Cuaron’s 3D space thriller scooped seven Oscars, the most of any...

Amerika dan China sepakat akan menggunakan sejumlah besar dana dan usaha untuk mengurangi emisi gas-gas rumah kaca dan mendorong penggunaan energi yang efisien dalam industri dan bangunan. Amerika dan China sepakat akan bekerja sama untuk mengurangi dampak perubahan iklim dan polusi udara yang...

 Sochi Olympics close with breathtaking show. The closing ceremony kicked off shortly after 8 p.m., maintaining the “20:14” theme. The display was a fantastic affair in “art-house style,” with spectators continuing their trip through Russian culture. Fireworks lit up the...

Perairan di Indonesia resmi menjadi kawasan konservasi pari manta terbesar di dunia dalam upaya melindungi ikan tersebut dari ancaman kepunahan sekaligus mendongkrak pemasukan dari wisata bahari. Penetapan perairan Indonesia seluas 5,8 juta kilometer persegi untuk menjadi kawasan suaka pari...

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, has been nominated for the World Children’s Prize for championing education rights for girls. The 16-year-old, who now lives in Britain following extensive medical treatment, was shot by a Taliban...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world’s “most fearsome” destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat. In a...

The Chinese Lantern Festival this year coincides with Valentine’s Day. People across the country are planning to celebrate the combined festivals in traditional and new ways. Well-known dancers and singers from Shanghai are visiting Taipei as people across the strait warm up for the...

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono melantik delapan duta besar luar biasa dan berkuasa penuh Republik Indonesia di Istana Negara Jakarta, Jumat (14/2). Surat Keputusan Presiden no.3 tahun 2014, sebagaimana yang dibacakan Kepala Protokol Negara, menyatakan pengangkatan Budi Bowoleksono sebagai...

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menyaksikan serah terima Pesawat latih tempur yang baru dibeli dari Korea Selatan yakni tipe T50i, di Pangkalan Udara TNI Angkatan Udara Halim Perdanakusuma, Jakarta, Kamis (13/2). Sebelum penyerahan ke Mabes TNI, Presiden Korean Aerospace Industry (KAI) Ha...

China and Taiwan held their first government-to-government talks since they split 65 years ago after a brutal civil war – a symbolic yet historic move between the former bitter rivals, AFP news agency reported. Wang Yu-chi, who oversees Taiwan’s China policy, arrived in Nanjing on...

Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America’s spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a U.S. diplomat, died late on Monday evening at the age of 85, a family spokeswoman said in a statement. Shirley Temple – Come and Get Your...

The official 16-day competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics begins Saturday when gold medals in five sports will be contested. The Games in Russia’s Black Sea resort city kicked off Friday with a glitzy opening ceremony featuring Russian music, ballet stars, acrobats and...

Organizers of the Winter Olympics in Russia are scrambling to fix problems that are plaguing hotels and other facilities ahead of the Games opening ceremonies on Friday. Some foreign workers have alleged that they were operating under inhumane conditions in Sochi and then dismissed without...

U.S. transportation security officials are temporarily banning American travelers from taking any liquids, gels or sprays aboard Russia-bound flights because of a possible terror threat. Authorities gave the order Thursday, one day before the Winter Olympics officially open in Sochi. ...

Kepala Pusat Data Informasi dan Humas Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho melaporkan 14 orang tewas dan beberapa orang terluka terkena luncuran awan panas di gunung Sibanung, Sumatera Utara, Sabtu (1/2). Jangkauan awan panas meluncur sejauh 4,5 km terjadi pada...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wants families to stop at two children to prevent a burgeoning population from overwhelming schools and services. Asih, a cleaner in Tangerang, near Jakarta, is stopping at seven. “In my family, we always had a lot of children, and as long as we...

In May 2003, US troops searched the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s former spy headquarters in Baghdad, for weapons of mass destruction. They didn’t find any weapons. But in the flooded basement, soldiers DID find thousands of materials connected to Iraq’s once-thriving Jewish...

U.S. President Barack Obama will address the huge income gap between the poorest and wealthiest Americans when he delivers the annual State of the Union address Tuesday night before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The president has been unsuccessful in urging lawmakers to approve an...

President Barack Obama gave credit to the American people for making the country strong in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. As expected, he focused on the nation’s economy, and called for making this year “a year of action.” The president received a warm...

The U.S. Olympic Committee said on Monday it is sending the all-time largest athlete delegation of any nation in Winter Games history to next month’s Sochi Olympics with a 230-member team spread across all 15 disciplines. The U.S. team at the Feb. 7-23 Sochi Games will be comprised of...

More than 30 metric tons of ivory stocks are scheduled to be destroyed in Hong Kong. The African Wildlife Foundation says it welcomes the move in a region where a culture of ivory is deep seated. The decision to destroy the ivory stocks was made by the Endangered Species Advisory Committee of...

Much of the Indonesian capital is under waist-high water, after several days of unusually heavy monsoon rains caused floods that forced thousands to seek shelter. Rising flood waters in Jakarta forced many government offices and businesses to close Thursday. Many roads were unpassable in the...

ASEAN foreign ministers have concluded the first-ever high-level meeting hosted by Burma, also known as Myanmar, since the once-isolated country joined the grouping in 1997. Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin told reporters in the town of Bagan the participants discussed topics of...