The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 76 with the recovery of seven more bodies, said a police official on Thursday.
A seven-day traffic rush across China is coming to an end as the National Day holiday, also known as the "Golden Week," concluded on Tuesday.
Malaysian deputy Foreign Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said here Thursday in a press conference that families of seven passengers on the missing MH370 flight had received 50,000 U.S. dollars per claimant as advanced payment from the Malaysia Airlines (MAS).
Zhang Shuxia, an obstetrician in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to death with a two years' reprieve on Tuesday for trafficking seven babies, a local court said.
French foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday that a French priest was kidnapped between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Cameroon.
Survivors and victims' relatives of the tragedy sued the Philippine government for compensation on Thursday.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday rejected any dialogue with the kidnappers of seven soldiers in Sinai, who appeared in an online video to urge their release.
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