An Egyptian court on Thursday accepted an appeal against the sentence handed to three jailed Al- Jazeera journalists and a retrial will be scheduled, Ahram Online reported.
Du Yijun was there to greet a bright New Year but never expected to have her life terminated before dawn.
A suicide bomber who targeted a church in northeastern Nigeria's state of Gombe during a new year mass was killed by his own bomb, local police authorities said.
The parents of Hugjiltu, an 18-year-old who was executed after being wrongly convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1996, will receive 2,059,621.4 yuan ($332,116) in state compensation, the Higher People's Court of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region ruled on Tuesday.
The year 2014 has witnessed legal progress in China, particularly pardons and retrials, proving that the truth will out.
Four bodies have been found on Monday by rescuers in the sea area off Corfu island near the Italian ferry Norman Atlantic which was adrift since early Sunday after a fire started at the garage, Greek Shipping Minister Militiadis Varvitsiotis said.
Jia Yu knows all too well how those whose loved ones were onboard missing AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 feel, since she was in a similar position nine months ago.
A Hong Kong resident was among the people onboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501 which disappeared en route from Indonesia to Singapore, Hong Kong's Immigration Department said Monday.
A female healthcare worker on Monday was confirmed as having Ebola after returning to Glasgow in central Scotland from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, the Scottish government said.
Sony Picture Entertainment released the controversial film "The Interview" online Wednesday, in advance of a limited theatrical screening on Christmas Day.
The air searching for a missing AirAsia plane suspended on Monday evening due to darkness in the waters near the Bangka Belitung islands and will resume early Monday morning, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said.
Two persons were injured as an explosion took place in church street area of Bangalore city in South India on Sunday evening, local media reported.
Many people are still trapped in the Italian-flagged ferry which caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday and waiting to be rescued on Sunday night.
Search and rescue operation for an AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday with 162 people on board resumed on Monday morning, rescuer said here.
Search and rescue operation for an AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday with 162 people on board resumed on Monday morning, rescuers in Indonesia said.
I landed in Pyongyang on 10th April, 2012, after flying with Air Koryo, the only airline in DPRK for an hour and a half. From then, with curiosity and anxiety, my life as a foreign correspondent in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over two years begun.
Natural disasters bring vulnerabilities of developing countries into sharper focus. In Asia 2014 has been a whirlwind of typhoons, droughts, floods and the inevitable human devastation they create, leaving behind wrecked economies and lives.
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