Archaeologists digging an ancient Hellenistic city in Cyprus have come upon a family tragedy 24 centuries ago, the Cypriot Department of Antiquities announced on Thursday.
Eduardo Campos, candidate for the Brazilian presidency, died on Wednesday morning in a plane crash in Santos, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.
Aug. 13 in 1945 was the last moment of a long dark night in China. Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may not agree, it was the darkest before dawn for Japan as well.
Wiping out bats that are suspected of spreading the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa could have dire ecological and economic consequences, a New Zealand expert in veterinary public health warned Wednesday.
The Nepal government has conferred state honor to its deceased cine artist Shree Kishna Shrestha, who passed away last Saturday night and was cremated Monday evening, according to sources.
Mehdi, a resident living in Azadi town near Tehran, was about to cross the four-lane Tehran-Karaj driveway, when he felt the vibration of a roar overhead as a huge object rammed into a wall across the street.
The family of the Spanish priest, who was flown home from Liberia earlier in the week after being confirmed as suffering from Ebola, is receiving the experimental "ZMapp" treatment to combat his illness, it was confirmed by the Spanish press on Sunday.
Turkish movie Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film at the 67th Cannes Film Festival
The OPCW-UN joint mission has made "significantly good progress" in eliminating Syria's chemical stockpiles.
Two people died at the scene and 32 were landed in hospital with injuries after a bus explosion in Guangzhou Tuesday evening, police said.
Rainstorms lashed central China's Hunan Province and southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday and Tuesday, affecting over 1 million people and flooding a historical town.
Chen Siyu was strolling out of the school eatery one spring afternoon in 2011 when she saw an unusual motto on the side of a classroom building. It read, "Run. Don't walk."
The former Australian defense force official who led the international search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 arrived in Kiev on Monday to lead a 45-man Australian team, which will inspect the MH17 crash site.
Hong Kong's MTR Corporation has announced that the company's Chief Executive Officer, Jay Walder, will leave his post on Aug.15, a year earlier than scheduled, due to poor judgment in monitoring the project of high-speed rail line to Guangzhou.
A 21-year-old college student was charged on Monday with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder for a knife attack on a subway train in May, according to the New Taipei prosecutors office.
A runaway South Korean Army sergeant, who killed five comrades in a shooting spree Saturday night, was captured alive on Monday afternoon after some 20 hours of standoff with trailing soldiers.
At least four people have been confirmed dead, with one wounded, in a South Korean helicopter crash that occurred in the country's southern city on Thursday morning, YTN and Yonhap News Agency reported.
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