A wild boar has drowned after swimming for half an hour in a cold lake downtown in east China's Hangzhou City.
UN relief chief Valerie Amos expressed her disappointment on Saturday over an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy in Syria's besieged old Homs city.
Despite the wintry weather in China's revolutionary base of Yan'an, Wang Yuhong visits his cave house every morning to check whether it has collapsed.
An unusually ice storm hit the normally mild-to-hot city of Houston, Texas early this week, bringing chill-to-the-bone weather and forcing residents to deal with the ice-covered cars and roads and shut down the city government and schools.
"In Ningbo, Shanghai and Xi'an, tall buildings are everywhere. Pingyao is a very nice change. I like the atmosphere here," said french tourist Elene Bonnet, 60.
Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, announced Thursday that live poultry trading in its main urban areas is halted as of Friday to help contain H7N9 bird flu infections.
Four elderly patients have died of gastroenteritis after a norovirus outbreak at a hospital in the western Japanese city of Kyoto, local press report
Widespread flooding afflicting Indonesian capital of Jakarta killed eight people and forced over 60,000 others to escape
Popular Chinese actress Tang Wei fell victim to telecom fraud on Saturday in Shanghai, according to local police.
Al-Qaida-linked militants have left Fallujah in Iraq's western Anbar province and the city is fully in the hands of Sunni tribesmen now, a local councilman said on Monday.
The chairman of a fisheries cooperative association in a southwestern Japan city was shot and died on Friday morning, local press reported.
China's northern municipality of Tianjin will restrict traffic and issue new car license plates via bidding and lottery in a drive to fight traffic jam and air pollution.
Archaeologists said a Neolithic Chinese city was excavated on Wednesday in east China's Anhui Province.
At least five cops were killed and aother was injured in two separate incidents of firing at police mobiles in Pakistan's southern Hyderabad city on Tuesday night, local media reported.
The island city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province has started building its first subway line, local authorities announced Wednesday.
Several mortars hit near an airport in the southern Somali city of Kismayo on Thursday where Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud was visiting, said presidential spokesman Abdirahman Osman.
Wenzhou, a manufacturing hub in east China's Zhejiang Province, has applied to the State Council to begin piloting private banks, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
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