Japan's population of people aged 100 years or older hit a new record in September, with the number having increased consistently since 1971, the government said Tuesday.
Flames once again licked the historic buildings of Britain's capital as a wooden replica of 17th century London went up in smoke to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.
As giant panda cub Bei Bei living in Washington National Zoo turns one year old on Monday, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan sent a message to wish him a healthy and happy childhood.
The man who set fire to flammable liquid and stabbed six passengers on a train in northern Switzerland was confirmed dead on Sunday after suffering serious burns in the attack Saturday.
A man on Saturday set fire to flammable liquid on a train travelling between Buchs and Sennwald in Switzerland, injuring seven people including the man himself, the Switzerland's St. Gallen cantonal police reported.
The boy, 3, died on Wednesday when the car, being driven by his father, crashed on the way from Sapporo to Asahikawa
Germany has been shaken by four attacks in a week, three of them by asylum seekers while two of them claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Heightened social insecurity prompts criticism again over the German government's open-door refugee policies.
Mr Lu Hengjiu, 35, used to spend hours playing online games, accumulating 10,000 yuan (S$2,016) worth of virtual assets at one point.
The old store keeper was standing behind a glass case in his dusty shop in the southern Kandahar province and bargaining enthusiastically with a customer over the price of a rare and expensive artifact.
If Rijal Almaa, a stone village tucked into a fold of Saudi Arabia's southern mountains, showcases the polished end-point of new efforts in the kingdom to preserve cultural heritage, the hamlet of Watan Emsoudah represents the difficulties faced.
When the sun quietly shines into the cracks of the Wuyi Road, the oldest road in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, a new day begins.
When I started to learn English, my teacher said to me that if a foreigner asks you where your hometown is, you can tell him you live nearby the Yangzi River, which is well known all over the world, instead of this county’s name—Zhongxian in Chongqing, because even the best knowledgeable people perhaps know Chongqing, but Zhongxian, one of its small counties, still makes no concept in many people’s mind.
Prosecutors demanded on Friday that a juvenile defendant accused of raping and killing 19-year-old Enno Farihah last month be sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
Residents here were again reminded of the troubling presence of U.S. military bases when a 20-year-old local woman was found slain on May 19, the latest in more than 60 years of tragic incidents.
Protesters staged a silent rally on May 22 in front of Camp Zukeran in Okinawa Prefecture to mourn the death of a 20-year-old local woman who was found slain last week.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida late Thursday lodged a protest to U.S. embassy in Tokyo on an ex-U.S. Marine's arrest over the death of an Okinawa woman, calling that the case "regrettable."
A driver for Chinese ride hailing app Didi Chuxing in the southern city of Shenzhen has been arrested for robbing and murdering a passenger, local police said on Monday.
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