The death toll from a fire early Sunday in a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil has climbed to 233, and 106 injured are receiveing treatment in hospital, local television reports said.
Poor air quality in some cities of China, particularly in the capital Beijing, has hit international headlines and it is a problem which big cities in industrialized countries have repeatedly come up against for decades.
Italians will go to the polls to elect their next prime minister in little more than five weeks, in a vote whose importance will resonate far beyond Italy's borders.
On Friday a devastating landslide engulfed a small county in the mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province, claiming more than 40 lives...Now, families who lost their beloved ones are questioning whether the disaster was natural - or man-triggered.
The mother of a rape victim in central China has filed a petition over her detainment in a labor camp, sparking a new wave of public outcry calling for reform - or even abolishment - of re-education through labor.
A Boeing 787 dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways Co. made emergency landing Wednesday morning at southweast Japan's Takamatsu Airport.
A speeding train derailed and overturned outside of Cairo on Tuesday, killing 19 and injuring over 100 new military recruits.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that President Hugo Chavez was making progress in his recovery from cancer surgery and ensuing respiratory problems in Cuba.
Chinese market had become Jaguar Land Rover's biggest market.
Asked which region or country they thought offered the best returns, audience members at the “Asian Financial Forum”, which kicked off on Jan the 14th in Hong Kong, voted 48.9 per cent for China, 30.2 per cent for Southeast Asia, 10 per cent for the United States, 7.6 per cent for India and 3.3 per cent for Western.
Two people were injured in a high school shooting in Taft city of Kern County, California, Thursday morning.
India's Supreme Court Friday said that "there is no safety for women" amid the prevailing law and order situation in the capital while responding to a public plea after the recent horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old woman.
Two people were injured in a shooting incident at a high school in the U.S. state of California on Thursday morning, and the shooter is now in custody, local police said.
The Chinese government will this year push the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference on Monday.
One driver was killed and another injured during a test run of a metro line Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
A former housing official in central China's province of Henan is being detained by police over corruption after a blogger exposed his family owns a combined 29 houses...defying the government's own strict curbs on buying a home
On Monday, the Chinese government said it will push for new reforms of its reeducation through labor system...While others say its very existence, is unconstitutional.
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