The suspect who shot to injure two fellow students at a middle school in the U.S. state of New Mexico Tuesday was said to be a 12-year-old male student.
A Dutch national and an Australian have been charged with smuggling cocaine valued at 600, 000 NZ dollars (500,167 U.S. dollars) hidden in a travel pillow, New Zealand Customs officials announced Wednesday.
A woman from a remote village in central India has created a medical record by giving birth to 10 babies at a time, doctors said Monday.
Three women who had been working as slaves for some 30 years were rescued in a south London house Thursday morning, according to local media reports.
Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 19 others at a house party in Houston, the U.S. state of Texas, local authorities said on Monday.
A hostage situation in Reuver, a town in the southern Dutch province of Limburg, ended Thursday with the death of the hostage-taker and his three-year-old daughter, Dutch police said.
For Chen Zhiting and Zhang Yide, old miners who used to live in shanty housing near a half-abandoned coal mine, this year's National Day holiday marks a comfortable beginning of their retired lives.
Conducted by Zubin Mehta, and played by the Vienna Philharmonic in cooperation with violinist Pinchas Zukerman, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 was presented on Sunday, marking the climax of the Salzburg Festival 2013.
A 26-year-old Fijian mother has been charged with two counts of manslaughter arising from negligence and duty of care of parents for the deaths of her two children in Taveuni, Fiji.
A 19-year-old female Chinese student Sunday was found dead without violated signs in a bush near Perugia, Italy.
Two children were stabbed to death by their father early Tuesday morning in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima according to local press.
Italy's parliament started voting on Thursday morning to elect a successor to President Giorgio Napolitano, whose seven-year term expires in mid-May.
Old Chinese towns that attract huge numbers of tourists from across the country are caught between a rock and a hard place in pursuing commercial development while preserving their old-style flavor.
A seven-year-old girl in Beijing who was infected with H7N9 bird flu, the first such case in the Chinese capital, was discharged from hospital Wednesday afternoon, local health authorities announced.
While the nation was mourning the death of a 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped two weeks ago in the Indian capital, a 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in the eastern state of West Bengal, reported local media Monday.
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