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Apple gears up for bumper China harvest

Apple Inc. is greatly speeding up market expansion in China by opening five new stores in roughly five weeks.

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Apple gears up for bumper China harvest

Apple Inc. is greatly speeding up market expansion in China by opening five new stores in roughly five weeks.

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Nine killed as minibus falls off cliff in SW China

Nine people were killed and five others injured Sunday as a minibus fell off a cliff in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said.

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Turkey urges ground action against Islamic State

​Turkey's president has urged the international community to escalate attacks against the Islamic State (IS) militant group, warning that the armed group could expand its reach beyond Iraq and Syria.

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Father suspected of murdering 5 children in U.S. state S. Carolina: authorities

A father was booked into a jail Thursday in the U.S. southern state of South Carolina after he was arrested on charges of murdering five children, ages one to eight, local authorities said.

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17 killed in two attacks in Afghanistan

Two militant attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul and the Kunar provincial capital of Assadabad left 17 people dead and 19 others injured on Tuesday, officials confirmed.

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U.S. extends antidumping duties on steel products from 5 countries

A U.S. trade panel decided on Tuesday to extend antidumping and countervailing duties on hot- rolled steel products from five foreign countries after the second five-year review of the measures imposed initially in 2001.

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EU urges Albania to deliver concrete results in meeting key priorities

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on Monday underlined the need for Albania to deliver concrete results in meeting the five key priorities in order to receive the EU candidate country status.

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Singapore's R&D investments have encouraging outcomes: official

Singapore's research and development investments are seeing encouraging outcomes, local broadcaster Channel NewsAsia reported on Tuesday, citing an official of the National Research Foundation.

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4 plead guilty at trial of Chinese tenor's son

A trial of a renowned Chinese tenor's teenage son, accused of gangrape, ended on Thursday at a Beijing district court.

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Son of Chinese tenor stands rape trial

The teenage son of a renowned Chinese tenor, who was allegedly involved in a gang-rape case, stood trial in a Beijing district court on Wednesday

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Indian court orders camera proceeding of hearings for gang rape case

Fearing that the five accused in the horrifying rape case in the Indian capital last month could be lynched by angry crowds, a local court ordered camera proceeding of the hearings on Monday rather than in person at the demand of police.