Sixteen of the 31 confirmed deaths in the Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crash were Chinese mainland residents, according to the local disaster response authority.
Latin American nations have joined the international outcry against the grisly killing of a Jordanian pilot at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) terrorists.
An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday 230, including prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma, for life sentence over voilence charges, official news MENA reported.
The expulsion of a Chinese Ph.D. student working at Norway's University of Agder has drawn worldwide attention as the authorities claimed his expertise could be used "for military purposes in other countries."
A senior Al-Shabaab member was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week in southern Somalia, the Somali intelligence agency confirmed Wednesday.
Rescuers have found a total of 90 bodies of victims of crashed AirAsia plane from Indonesia's waters, rescuer said on Tuesday.
A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday morning, 13 have died and three are in a critical condition, a Xinhua reporter on the scene reported.
A video purporting to show the execution of a Jordanian pilot hostage was released on Tuesday by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) shortly after the United States and Jordan signed a memorandum which would increase the U.S. annual assistance to Jordan from 660 million to 1 billion U.S. dollars.
When street sweeper Ding Quan, 58, paused to warm himself at a roadside fire after putting in a hard shift in driving snow, little did he suspect that it would cost him job.
Britain's Chancellor George Osborne on Monday warned a eurozone stand-off over Greece's debt was becoming the biggest risk to the global economy.
Francine Nayituriki, a mother of five from Ruhango, a district located at around 80 kilometers from Kigali in the Southern Rwanda, has at several attempts risked arrest for straying into the nearby forests to fetch wood for cooking, after the East African nation decide to enforce the law by bringing to justice those involved in cutting down trees.
Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan, Province, one of the nation's ten most polluted cities a decade ago, has been transformed.
China on Monday urged Mexico to ensure legal rights and interests of Chinese enterprises after the Mexican government suspended a high-speed railway project, in which a Chinese-led consortium was a bidder.
Lu Wucheng, a senior legislator of northwest China's Gansu Province, was removed from official post and stripped of status as a national law-maker on Sunday.
Italian parliament elected 73-year-old constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella as new president on Saturday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on early Sunday morning harshly condemned the purported killing of Kenji Goto, following the latest video message uploaded by the militant group Islamic State shows the beheading of a man suspected to be the captured Japanese national.
Hundreds of Portuguese who oppose the sale of Portuguese flag carrier TAP protested on Saturday at Lisbon airport.
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