Typhoon Haiyan has been downgraded to a strong tropical storm as it moved inland after making landfall in China. But it still caused some devastation and left at least seven people dead in China's southern regions over the past two days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he was more cautious after being named the most powerful person by Forbes magazine.
A bomb exploded in Johannesburg in South Africa on Tuesday afternoon, leaving 2 dead and five injured, police said.
Two people were killed and 22 others were wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted at a massive house party in Houston suburb of Cypress, authorities said Sunday.
Iran's deputy minister of industry, mines and commerce was killed here on Sunday evening, the official IRNA news agency reported.
A hostage situation in Reuver, a town in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, ended Thursday with the death of the hostage-taker and his three-year-old daughter, Dutch police said.
Three people were killed and another six injured late Wednesday during a shooting at a barbershop in eastern Detroit.
Brazil's justice minister on Tuesday defended his country's spying on diplomats from Russia, Iran and Iraq, saying the operations were "completely different" from U.S. spying on Brazil and many other countries.
A 27-year-old man who made false bomb threats affecting flights in six Chinese cities in May was sentenced to five years in jail by a court in the southern city of Shenzhen on Tuesday.
China's Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang has received an indefinite ban from competition following his seven-day detention for driving without a license.
Eddie Stephen Mills, 54, used to have a decent job in an educational office in Alabama in the United States.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said that she was open, in principle, to summit talks with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK), indicating a conciliatory gesture toward Pyongyang to improve relations between the two Koreas.
Reconstruction work in earthquake-hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai Province has been completed, with a ceremony to mark the occasion on Sunday, local authorities said.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ( TTP), or Pakistan Taliban, has appointed Asmatullah Shaheen as their interim leader after differences emerged among various ranks to replace the former TTP Chief Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, local media quoted unidentified sources as saying on Sunday.
China's first male Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang was driving without license when his Porsche SUV collided with a bus, police said.
Vaccinations have long been used around the world, preventing disease and the possible death of millions.
Several mortars hit near an airport in the southern Somali city of Kismayo on Thursday where Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud was visiting, said presidential spokesman Abdirahman Osman.
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