The death toll has risen to 35 with one person still missing following a landslide in Taining County in east China's Fujian Province on Sunday, sources with Taining County authorities confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
Growth in New Zealand's services sector slowed last month to its lowest level in more than a year, according to the latest performance of services index (PSI) released on Tuesday.
The death toll of a 6.7-magnitude quake which hit Taiwan early Saturday rose to 35 Monday as rescuers working overnight pulled out another body from under the debris.
The tragedy was caused by the collapse of a huge pile of construction waste, rather than any natural geological phenomenon, the investigation team said in a statement.
Rescue and relief work are still under way as the death toll from an east China landslide has risen to 21, with 16 people still missing, as of Sunday night.
The Philippines' death toll from typhoon Koppu reached 41 while 78 others were reported injured in the northern part of the country, the state disaster management agency said Thursday.
China's pork prices, which has been rising for three months straight, led China's consumer price index (CPI) to grow 2.0 percent in August from a year ago, up 0.35 percentage point from July, and higher than average market expectation of 1.9 percent.
A huge fire broke out in the small hours of Thursday at the Cite des Sciences, northeast Paris, local media reported.
The protracted Iran nuclear talks are entering the final stage for a historic deal, but Tehran said there was still work to do for a comprehensive agreement by Monday.
Altogether 224 people are still in critical condition following a fire on June 27 at a water park in Taiwan, the island's health authority said Thursday.
At least two people were confirmed dead Tuesday and 12 missing after severe storms battered Houston, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas, overnight.
The ship is leaking, but the captain is reluctant to do the repair. That is exactly what the United States, veto-wielding master of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is doing in the reform of the global lending body.
The ship is leaking, but the captain is reluctant to do the repair. That is exactly what the United States, veto-wielding master of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is doing in the reform of the global lending body.
Limping in a crowded street in Kabul as he directed traffic, Azam Shah, a former anti-invasion fighter, could not understand why with the defeat of the Russians and the end of the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, there still seems to be no end to the war in his country.
Worries about unemployment, corruption fall in Spain while remaining main problems
A number of metrics indicate the U.S. economy is slowly but surely digging itself out of the dark abyss created by the worst recession in decades, but the jobless rate remains high, with millions still out of work and millions more underemployed.
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