The arrest of a 16-year-old teenager in Sydney hours before the annual Anzac memorial services across Australia is a "truly chilling and disturbing scenario" and Australians should remain vigilant to the threat by global terrorism, said Australian Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter Terrorism Michael Keenan on Monday.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Grain Rain,as the last term in spring, starts on April 20 and ends on May 5.
A 16-year-old was mauled by a dog in Tokoroa yesterday afternoon, leaving him with wounds to his ankles, legs and arms. Photo / Getty Images
Ma Zhiying, a 96-year-old Chinese veteran, who took agroup of photos under the encouragement of hisgranddaughter, has become a fashion icon on China'ssocial media.
Following revelations that numerous sexual assaults took place in Cologne, Germany over New Year's Eve, Austrian police in Salzburg on Thursday reported a number of similar incidents.
China's population is aging at a historical high, setting the government with the arduous task of providing balanced care for a growing number of senior citizens.
Malaysia arrested 5 men with suspected involvement in terrorist activities, including three linking to the Islamic States(IS), police said Saturday.
A McDonald's cafe opened in the old home of former Taiwan leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, last week.
One woman was killed and two others injured in a shooting early Monday morning in New York, police said.
An 18-year-old man arrested in Sydney's anti-terror raids in connection with the murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng in an act of terror will be held for another 100 hours despite no charges being laid.
Qian Liqun, former professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University, chose to spend his remaining years with his wife in the nursing home after retirement.
Five males aged 16 to 24 were arrested in dawn raid in Sydney on Wednesday in relation to the fatal shooting of an employee outside New South Wales police headquarters last Friday.
Mother of the Palestinian toddler killed in a Jewish arson attack near the West Bank city of Nablus on July 31 died of her sustained wounds, her family confirmed on Sunday.
Five people from the same family were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing materials related to terrorism, Britain's Metropolitan Police said.
Indigenous suicide rates in Australia are a humanitarian crisis, a report released on Tuesday said.
The Islamic State (IS) militants have rigged the millennia-old city of Palmyra in central Syria with explosives, a monitor group reported on Sunday.
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday asked the U.S. Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into the city police practices after the death of 25-year-old African-American man Freddie Gray thrusted the city into the vortex of a heated national debate over police brutality in minority neighborhoods.