The teenage son of Li Shuangjiang, a renowned Chinese tenor, was sentenced to ten years in prison for rape on Thursday, according to Beijing Haidian District People's Court.
Investigations indicated the Washington Navy Yard shooter was delusional when he carried out the shooting rampage that killed 12 people and wounded four others, and he had been prepared to die in the attack, said FBI investigators on Wednesday.
A group of researchers from two Japanese universities said that railway suicides cases tend to increase due to less of sunlight, such as after a series of cloudy and rainy days, according to local media.
A man who killed a two-year-old girl by throwing her to the ground was sentenced to death by a Beijing court on Wednesday.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday slammed the United States for "meddling" in her country's affairs by widespread espionage -- the surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), calling it "a breach of international law."
The Chinese community here held a flag-raising ceremony on Sunday to mark the upcoming 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
An Egyptian court on Monday banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and ordered to seize the group's assets and funds, state-run al-Ahram online reported.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday evening by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron, the spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed to Xinhua.
Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.
At least six people were killed when a double-decker bus collided with a passenger train here during Wednesday's morning rush hour, authorities said.
A Malaysian national is an alleged "big-wig" of a 2 million AU dollar (1.84 million U.S. dollar) match-fixing scandal involving a Victorian soccer club, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported on Monday.
Three ambassadors for giant pandas shared their knowledge with local audience during their visit to the Edinburgh Zoo on Tuesday.
The fourth victim has been killed Tuesday by an alleged poacher who started a shoot-out with the police in the state of Lower Austria, authorities said.
Zong Qinghou, one of China's richest men, was attacked with a knife near his residence in Hangzhou on Friday, and local police confirmed on Wednesday that they have arrested a suspect.
Relentless rainfall in Colorado's eastern "Front Range" has caused several mudslides and flooded a number of towns, destroying hundreds of homes and leading to three fatalities, local officials said Thursday.
Ocean Park followed a normal procedure concerning the death of the hawksbill turtle, and it has never tried to hide or delay any information on the loss of the turtle, said chairman of the park Allan Zeman.
Brazilian diplomat Eduardo Saboia, who helped a Bolivian senator sneak out of Brazil's embassy and flee his country, could be back at work next month, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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