Death toll of a landslide in east China's Zhejiang Province has risen to 31, with 6 still missing as of 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Rokar village empties during the dry season as the workforce migrates to find more gainful employment. But when the monsoon arrives, they return, not to fish as has traditionally been their staple income, but for a more lucrative trade: catching leeches.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said she does not support the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, reached on Monday after marathon talks between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim nations.
The controversy around email practices threatens to define Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy, a new Gallup survey said on Wednesday.
"Nanking Nanking," a Chinese film on the Nanjing Massacre hit the largest Japanese video website Niconico, while viewers' live comments exposed the ignorance of history of the Japanese netizens.
Australian researchers have revealed the universe is dying, but there is no need to panic as there is still about 100 billion years to go.
The Music House of Iran's Basij unveiled a song about the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers in the Coburg Hotel in the Austrian capital of Vienna, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
Indigenous leaders have lashed out at the Australian government, accusing Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of not listening to suggestions about how to tackle constitutional recognition of the Aboriginals as Australia's first people.
The number of opponents against a security-related legislation package pushed by the Japanese government increased by 11.1 percentage points from a previous poll in May to 58.7 percent, a latest nationwide survey released Sunday showed.
Hong Kong Customs has foiled a suspected smuggling attempt and seized about 4 million HK dollars (about 520,000 U.S. dollars) worth of unmanifested electronic products from two sampans, it said here Thursday.
The American people see ISIS ( Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) as a bigger threat to the U.S. than Iran, Russia or other countries, a new CNN/ORC poll showed Wednesday.
Police in south Thailand's Krabi province are still searching for an Israeli female tourist who remained missing after a tour boat exploded and burst into flames on Wednesday, China's consular office in Phuket said Thursday.
There has been increasing speculation about what might have happened to Russian President Vladimir Putin since Wednesday when news broke that a trilateral summit scheduled to take place later of the week among leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in Astana, the national capital of Kazakhstan, was postponed for unknown reasons.
"Believe me, I have no knowledge about International Women's Day today, or other days dedicated to celebrating and respecting women. The only thing I know about women is that they should take care of their husbands and her children," a female passerby told Xinhua.
The advent of high-speed rail has greatly increased capacity, and modern trains have made the travel experience a lot more comfortable.
A senior official at Indonesia's second largest state-run bank, Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), said on Monday that the bank raked 24.20 trillion rupiah (about 1.9 billion U.S. dollars) of net profit throughout last year, or 14.35 percent higher than it booked a year earlier.
The Japanese government on Saturday approved an emergency economic stimulus package worth about 3.5 trillion yen (about 29.06 billion U.S. dollars) to drive regional economies hit by higher prices due to sales tax hike and the yen's fast retreat.
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