More than 40 hours have passed since the missing Malaysian plane carrying 239 people, including more than 150 Chinese, lost contact with air traffic controllers.
In the southeast German state of Bavaria, a bus carried 62 primary school students suddenly burst into flames, but no one was killed due to prompt intervention of the bus driver, local media reported on Tuesday.
The Hong Kong police on Wednesday detained three local males and one female for illegally forcing into the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in the island city last Thursday afternoon.
Casualties were feared as a bus carrying 30 to 40 passengers plunged into a gorge in the western Indian state of Maharashatra Thursday morning, said local TV channel CNN-IBN.
The Indian government has ordered a probe into allegations of snooping on a young woman in 2009 by the western state of Gujarat and its controversial Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is also the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate for 2014 general elections
A light plane has crashed into the sea near South Stradbroke Island, off the Gold Coast, Australia, Queensland Police said on Monday.
The death toll from an oil pipeline blast on Nov. 22 in Qingdao City of east China's Shandong Province rose to 62 as of Tuesday morning, as body of the last missing person was retrieved on Monday, the rescue headquarters said.
The chief bodyguard of Iraq's president was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his home in the northern semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, an official website reported Wednesday.
The Japanese government will soon conduct a test to build a frozen wall at the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as part of a wider plan to prevent leaking radioactive water flowing into the Pacific Ocean, government officials confirmed Thursday.
A newspaper report on JPMorgan over its hiring of influential Chinese officials' children sparked widespread vitriol among the country's netizens. Most of the web users supported the U.S. authorities' probe into the investment company's hiring practice, with some calling it an "open secret" and "just a drop in the bucket."
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said the ministry condemns the gruesome incident in its strongest term. He added that the police have started investigation into the case and will bring those behind the crime to justice.
Speakers at a press conference disapproved the Hong Kong government's proposal of landfill extension, saying that upgrading recycling capacity is of higher importance.
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in northwest China's Shaanxi Province damaged an underground oil pipeline Monday morning, causing oil to leak into a nearby river.
Egypt's defense minister said the army is obliged to interfere to prevent the country from sliding into a dark tunnel of conflicts, internal fighting and sectarian strife, official news agency MENA reported Sunday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, Yonhap News Agency said quoting an anonymous Seoul military official.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a short-range missile on Monday into the Sea of Japan, local media reported.
South Korea on Wednesday successfully launched a space rocket in its third attempt to put a satellite into space.
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