At least two people were confirmed dead Tuesday and 12 missing after severe storms battered Houston, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas, overnight.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the largest of its kind in the world, kicked off at a downtown park in the U.S. city of Houston Tuesday, with the country's best breeds of livestock on display and an expected attendance of over 2 million visitors.
Nineteen students and a driver were sent to hospitals after the school bus they were riding slammed into a tree in the U.S. city of Houston Tuesday morning, local media reported.
Australian ship Ocean Shield has reacquired two more suspicious signals in the southern Indian Ocean during an intensified search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 on Tuesday, while the weaker receipt suggests the multinational search team is running out of time to find the wreckage before the black box battery completely expires.
An Australian ship detected two more acoustic events possibly from airplane black boxes in the past 24 hours in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 in South Indian Ocean, Australian official announced Monday.
A Houston woman, who wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama in which she threatened to kill him, was indicted by a federal grand jury, U.S. media reported Wednesday.
Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush was discharged from a Houston hospital on Saturday, a family spokesman said.
Three university students were killed and another injured during a one-car crash on campus in the U.S. state of Texas Saturday, local media reported.
The Chinese community here held a flag-raising ceremony on Sunday to mark the upcoming 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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