A high school in Southern Californian city of Arcadia was locked down Thursday afternoon after receiving an anonymous phone call reporting a gunman on campus.
All four adult convicts in the gruesome Delhi gang rape last December were sentenced to death for rape, murder and destruction of evidence in a historic judgment by a fast track court here Friday.
The New Zealand government on Thursday welcomed a nine-year jail sentence for a Hong Kong man who was caught importing a record haul of methamphetamine.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked nine ministers in a cabinet reshuffle, a presidential spokesman told reporters here.
In fast moving events, the UN Security Council canceled on Tuesday an emergency late afternoon session on Syria following Russia's reported rejection of a tough French proposal for international control of Syria's chemical weapons.
At least four people were killed and 14 others injured after an explosion ripped through a building in south China's Guangzhou City around noon Tuesday, local police said.
The Israeli Defense Forces stationed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery near Jerusalem, a military spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
Pacific island nations are on track to having half of their energy produced by renewable resources in the next five years, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said here Friday.
A 58-year-old American tourist was killed by an elephant in the Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania, police said on Wednesday.
Police in north China's Shanxi Province disclosed on Wednesday night details of a horrifying case in which the eyes of a 6-year-old boy were gouged out, in response to mounting doubts over the police's accusation his late aunt was the suspect.
A 17-year-old student was stabbed dead and three others were injured during a fight at a high school in the U.S. state of Texas early Wednesday, local media reported.
Brazil's Senate formed an Investigative Parliamentary Commission Tuesday to follow up on reports that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on President Dilma Rousseff.
Finland, base and origin of mobile giant Nokia, was surrounded by mixed atmosphere filled with hope, watch, doubt and despair on Tuesday, after news came out that the company is going to sell its mobile sector to Microsoft.
New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War and have double the rate of chronic lymphatic leukemia compared with the general population, according to medical research out Monday.
Fifteen people were confirmed dead and 25 others injured, five critically, after a liquid ammonia leak at a refrigeration unit in Shanghai on Saturday, local authorities said.
At least 15 people have been confirmed dead and more than 20 others injured, after a liquid ammonia leak at a refrigeration unit in Shanghai on Saturday.
Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela was "fully alive," contrary to media reports that he was in a vegetative state, his grandson Mandla Mandela said on Sunday.
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