At least 27 people were killed and 51 others wounded on Thursday evening when a bomb struck a cafe in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, police said.
A postgraduate student in Shanghai died Tuesday, more than two weeks after he drank water that was allegedly poisoned by his roommate.
Indian police arrested five people in connection with the gangrape of a Swiss woman on Monday.
Australian police in the coastal regions of southern New South Wales (NSW), have taken law enforcement into the globalized realm of after sales service, with an innovative program designed to embrace the concept that of " keeping the customer satisfied."
A missing baby, who was left in a car that had been stolen on Monday morning in northeast China's Jilin Province, died after being strangled, local police confirmed Tuesday evening.
China's southwest border province, Yunnan, is still being hit hard by drug trafficking.
The Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Friday postponed the case of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius until February 19.
Los Angeles police Sunday announced a reward of one million U.S. dollars for information leading to the capture of a former officer suspected of killing three people.
The three Asian doctors that were killed by unknown attackers in the northeast Nigeria's town of Potiskum are from Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Nigerian police in northeast state of Yobe confirmed on Sunday.
A suicide car bomber along with other suicide bombers carried out coordinated attacks at a provincial police headquarters in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a provincial police source said.
At least four people, including a policeman, were killed in political violence triggered by Thursday 's hartal (strike) called by Bangladesh Jamat-e-Islami party demanding the release of its leaders who face charges of war crimes.
Disciplinary authorities in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Thursday vowed to thoroughly investigate officials who are believed to have been involved in a recent sex video scandal.
At least five more people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38 in such attacks during the week from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, local media and police said.
Taliban militants targeted the headquarters of Kabul Traffic Police on Monday morning, killing at least one police and injuring 16 others and thus causing panic among the war-weary residents.
China's railway police began a 60-day campaign on Tuesday against ticket scalpers - who buy tickets only to sell them at higher prices - ahead of Spring Festival.
Two people were injured in a shooting incident at a high school in the U.S. state of California on Thursday morning, and the shooter is now in custody, local police said.
Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on February 10th, 2013. With more severe winter weather than usual, the Ministry of Public Security is urging local police to strengthen traffic management in advance.
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