Shanghai tourism authorities started emergency procedures on Thursday following the kidnap of female tourist in Malaysia.
As the train approaches Houtong, west of Taipei, a steward yells, "Kitty lovers, please get ready to get off," and the crowded carriage is suddenly empty.
A shooting took place at the U.S. Army base of Fort Hood in Texas Wednesday, leaving at least one killed and 14 others injured, U.S. media reported.
Fiery debates over whether high frequency trading (HFT) has rigged the markets occupied media headlines in the past few days, but market participants, scholars and regulators have still not found a solution, with expanded investigations underway.
Cyprus received a further 150 million euro tranche of bailout assistance from international lenders on Wednesday after a successful screening of its economic adjustment program.
India's Supreme Court Tuesday reiterated that three assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi would not be hanged, dismissing a review plea by the central government.
The appeal hearing of a former policeman sentenced to death for killing a pregnant woman in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was heard on Tuesday.
HealthCare.gov, the online service of U.S. federal health insurance marketplace, was closed to new customers for two different periods of time on Monday, the deadline day for sign-ups of the President Barack Obama's health care law.
Lin Zulian has been reelected head of a new village committee in Wukan after thousands of residents cast their votes on Monday, despite torrential rains and corruption scandals.
Thailand's senatorial election started Sunday morning, with no disruption from anti-government protesters reported as yet.
India's anti-graft party chief Arvind Kejriwal was attacked Friday while he was on a campaign trail for upcoming general elections in the northern state of Haryana, a police official said.
No one was killed in a massive fire that devoured Lao capital Vientiane's biggest marketplace Thong Khan Kham, a police officer said on Thursday.
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Abu Ghaith has been convicted in New York of conspiring to kill Americans by serving as al Qaeda's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks, a spokesperson of the federal court told Xinhua on Wednesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that it could not get enough evidence to explain why 100 tons highly radioactive water spilt from a storage tank on February, local media reported.
Over a week into the students' occupation of Taiwan's legislative building, both the ruling party and its opposition have shown intent on finding a peaceful end to the standoff over a cross-Strait service pact.
Russia is a global power not a regional one, a senior Russian parliamentarian said Wednesday.
An Indian army soldier was wounded Tuesday after a landmine went off close to the line-of-control (LoC) in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
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