Typhoon Haiyan has been downgraded to a strong tropical storm as it moved inland after making landfall in China. But it still caused some devastation and left at least seven people dead in China's southern regions over the past two days.
U.S. will discuss its global espionage programme with France, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was quoted as saying on Monday in Paris, after France summoned the U.S. ambassador earlier in the day on spy claims.
From Saturday to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Zhejiang saw average precipitation of 201 mm, with 717 mm in worst-hit Yuyao City, according to the Zhejiang provincial hydrological bureau.
Railway traffic during China's seven-day National Day holiday hit record high with over 70 million passengers, statistics from the China Railway Corporation showed on Monday.
China issued an orange warning ahead of another typhoon, Danas, forecast to enter the East China Sea on Monday night.
Two people were killed, and more than three million affected as Typhoon Fitow hit east China's Zhejiang Province.
A total of 74 people have been confirmed missing after three fishing boats have sunk since Sunday afternoon in a typhoon in South China Sea, maritime authorities said on Monday.
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.
U.S. stocks shed earlier gains and closed mixed on Monday, as former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pulled out of the race for Federal Reserve chairmanship, currently held by Ben Bernanke.
The death toll in the epic flooding in the U.S. state of Colorado climbed to seven on Monday, as the biggest rescue operation in the country since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina continued.
U.S. President Barack Obama released an executive order Monday to officially authorize non- lethal military aid to the Syrian opposition, in order to prevent the use and proliferation of chemical weapons.
The Syrian government on Monday denied and slammed the allegations of chemical weapon use as the United States along with its Western allies move closer to a military intervention in the Middle East country.
Syria's Information Ministry on Monday condemned as an attack on a police convoy that killed 25 Egyptian policemen as an "outrageous terrorist act."
A series of landslides has buried six vehicles and trapped an unknown number of people on highways in southern China as of Monday, said local authorities.
A landslide that left eight people dead on Monday in north China's Shanxi Province has been confirmed as a geological disaster, local government authorities said Wednesday.
The U.S. stocks closed mixed after volatile trading on Monday following record runs in the previous week, with the Nasdaq Composite Index eking out small gains, as the U.S. non-manufacturing activity index for July came in positive.
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has jolted China's northwest province of Gansu, killing at least dozens of people.
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