China's Ministry of Public Security has reported fewer road accidents and consequent fatalities during the 2015 Spring Festival peak period that officially ended Sunday.
The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 76 with the recovery of seven more bodies, said a police official on Thursday.
The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 69 with the recovery of 28 more bodies on Monday.
At least 16 people were killed in Egypt as hundreds of protestors loyal to ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi clashed with police in protests on Sunday.
A man arrested in Greece on Saturday as part of a series of anti-terror raids across Europe could be directly linked to the suspected jihadist cell broken up by Belgian police on Thursday, according to the Federal Prosecutor' s office.
A U.S. navy's SH- 60 Seahawk helicopter delivered three more bodies found earlier on Sunday to the evacuation command post of the crashed AirAsia jet, making the number of recovered bodies to 34 till Sunday afternoon.
Three venture capitalists were arrested after 12 of their investors attempted suicide in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said on Sunday.
Four bodies have been found on Monday by rescuers in the sea area off Corfu island near the Italian ferry Norman Atlantic which was adrift since early Sunday after a fire started at the garage, Greek Shipping Minister Militiadis Varvitsiotis said.
More than 40 suspected militants of Nigeria-based Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed in a series of confrontations with the Cameroonian army in the Far North Region of Cameroon, Cameroonian Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary announced Sunday night.
Search and rescue operation for an AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday with 162 people on board resumed on Monday morning, rescuers in Indonesia said.
Banri Kaieda, leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), decided on Monday to quit over the party's failure in Sunday's general election.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Sunday welcomed Lima accord on climate change which he said prepared the ground for Paris's next year gathering to forge concrete measures aimed at slowing increases in global temperature, droughts, floods, storms, and sea-level rise.
The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in China had hit 497,000 by the end of Oct., with 154,000 deaths, according to latest official figures.
The focus of ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna of Austria is on a "political agreement" over Iran's nuclear issue, which will include general principles rather than a comprehensive one, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying by semi-official ISNA news agency on Sunday.
Unknown gunmen on Sunday invaded a prison in the west African country's central north state of Kogi, killing one prisoner and set free at least 144 inmates, the government said on Monday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said late Sunday that Moscow respects the expression of the will of people in southeastern Ukraine to vote by election for regional leaders and legislative bodies.
A one-day strike enforced by a coalition of several Islamist parties demanding arrest and punishment of a sacked minister was observed peacefully in Bangladesh on Sunday.
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