In a tragic incident, one Indian athlete died Thursday while three others were in a critical condition after four of them attempted suicide at a state-run sports hostel in the southern state of Kerala late on Wednesday night. "The four girls consumed poisonous fruit after being allegedly harassed by their trainer. They were found by other hostel inmates and were rushed to a nearby hospital in state capital Thiruvananthapuram. One of them died this morning while others are battling for their lives," a senior police official said.
Over 150 people were injured on Wednesday in a confrontation between protesting teachers and the police in southern Brazil.
Vietnamese online media on Wednesday highlighted the visit by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to China.
Australia's PM announces taskforce to tackle drug "ice"
Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Coalition government has said it would be quick to privatize the state's 20 billion Australian dollar (15.5 billion U.S. dollar) electricity assets after winning the state election over the weekend.
Commercial logging will be forbidden in key state forests in northeast China on April 1, said China's forestry watchdog Thursday.
Location and logistical advantages, tax breaks, low costs of doing business, high tech innovation ...these are the selling points U.S. economic development officials tout to Chinese investors at the Exhibit Hall of the Gaylord National Convention Center in Maryland, where over 2,600 participants gather for the second SelectUSA Investment Summit.
A Nigerian senator from restive northeastern state of Borno has expressed optimism that the military will "liberate Gwoza town, a strong hold of Boko Haram, very soon".
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded a gloomy note about the prospect of a Palestinian state, warning that his policy difference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has great consequences for both countries and for the region."
The Obama administration vowed on Monday to continue its pursuit of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process based on a two-state solution and the borderlines prior to the 1967 war.
President Barack Obama on Thursday spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about U.S. adherence to the policy of two-state solution and its insistence on nuclear diplomacy with Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an Israeli news website Monday that if he is elected in Tuesday's national elections, "there will be no Palestinian state."
The number of people affected by the record-high flood in Acre River in the northern Brazilian state of Acre reached 87,000, local authorities said Wednesday.
Some sporadic armed clashes continued in Kokang region, northeastern Shan state of Myanmar, over the last two days, according to the military-run media, Myawaddy, on Thursday.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 89 children on Saturday near the town of Malakal, capital of the oil- rich Upper Nile state in South Sudan, according to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
Fighting between Myanmar's government forces and the Kokang ethnic army in northeastern Shan state, continued over the last two days amid government's declaration of state of emergency, official reports said Thursday.
Though the Chinese economy as a whole is restructuring for quality growth, its old industrial heartland seems to be missing the party.
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