Ariel Castro, the man from U.S. state of Ohio who kidnapped, raped and prisoned three girls for over a decade, was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday.
The Italian Supreme Court on Thursday made definitive a tax fraud conviction for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming a four-year jail term and ordering a new appeal trial for a related ban on public office.
Eleven people have been injured in a knife attack on board a coach in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong this morning.
A Spanish court found on Tuesday that the driver of the train, which derailed and killed 79 people last Wednesday, was speaking on the phone when the accident occurred.
A U.S. military judge on Tuesday ruled Bradley Manning, the Army private who is accused of leaking classified information to whistleblower site Wikileaks, not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of most other charges.
A Kenyan hotel worker accused of killing British tourist and abduction of his wife has been sentenced to death.
The Academy Award nominee Eileen Brennan, the actress who was best remembered for playing a tough drill captain in comedy "Private Benjamin" , died in California, Sunday morning at the age of 80.
Potato chips, fried potato and zucchini have been found to contain a high level of acrylamide, which can affect the nervous system, and have adverse reproductive and developmental effects in experimental animals, Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety said on Monday.
Two trains collided into each other on Monday at the exit of the Granges-pres-Marnand train station in the western Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, leaving some 40 injured, according to local media report.
Cho Cho, adapted from Giacomo Puccini's classic Madame Butterfly by Australian playwright Daniel Keene, is the first musical co-produced by Chinese and Australian artists. It is expected to be staged in Sydney and Melbourne later this year.
An official memorial service was held on Monday evening in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, northwestern Spain in tribute to the victims of last week's train crash which claimed 79 lives.
Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman on Monday ordered the New Zealand military to review its defense orders after it was revealed that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) regarded the country's investigative journalists as a subversion "threat".
"It's amazing that the metal accessories are still shiny after 2,000 years," said Yang Xiaolin, a researcher with the National Museum of China. The cart was among the items buried at the Majiayuan Graves in Muhe Township. Since the excavation began in 2006, archaeologists have discovered 60 tombs and sacrificial pits with 44 carts there, making the site one of the ten most important excavation projects of that year.
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has jolted China's northwest province of Gansu, killing at least dozens of people.
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge Kate gave birth to a boy on Monday afternoon.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have an official visit to the Philippines on July 26 and 27, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Monday.
A 19-year-old female Chinese student Sunday was found dead without violated signs in a bush near Perugia, Italy.
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