The suspect in Tuesday's bus explosion in south China's Guangzhou City has confessed that he set the vehicle on fire in anger after gambling losses, local police said Wednesday.
Seven Palestinian civilians were killed early on Thursday in a fresh Israeli airstrike on houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and security officials said.
Two suspects and a citizen were killed in Wednesday's railway station terror attack in the regional capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, police said Thursday.
U.S. stocks rallied Wednesday, rising for three sessions in a row, as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book reassured investors by showing that the world's largest economy has been recovering in recent weeks from the abnormally cold weather this winter.
Up to 14 aircraft and 11 ships will assist in Wednesday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, while the autonomous underwater vehicle ( AUV) Bluefin 21 was again deployed Tuesday night from Ocean Shield for underwater searching, the Joint Agency Coordination Center ( JACC) confirmed on Wednesday.
About 10 planes and nine ships combed a broader swathe of sea in southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday but left searchers with no sign of the Malaysian MH370 jetliner more than three weeks after it vanished.
The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has resumed off Western Australia's coast following the improvement in weather conditions, local media reported on Wednesday.
More countries have joined the massive hunt for a missing Malaysian plane, now that the search operation to locate the aircraft has been expanded to include two vast water areas as well as land after previous efforts failed to yield solid results, according to Malaysian authorities on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is considering 1 billion U.S. dollars in loan guarantees for Kiev, warning Russia that it would be a " grave mistake" to embark on a military intervention in Ukraine, local media reported on Wednesday.
Plunging temperatures and heavy rain will hit China's southern provinces over the next few days as a strong cold front moves southward, the country's national observatory forecast on Wednesday.
One soldier of the The NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) was killed earlier Wednesday in an attack in western Afghanistan, confirmed the ISAF forces on Wednesday night.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday underlined the need for "clarity" with the latest alleged use of chemical weapons in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, saying "the situation has to be followed carefully."
At least 421 people were killed and 3,572 others injured across Egypt in clashes between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the security troops, after the latter dispersed Wednesday two pro-Morsi sit-ins in the country, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
At least one person was confirmed dead and five others missing as Typhoon Utor churned through south China on Wednesday bringing high winds and torrential rain.
A memorial service was held on Wednesday for 161 people who died or went missing in a landslide that hit a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province during the previous week.
South African former president Mandela was responding to medical treatment, the presidency website said on Wednesday.
U.S. stocks retreated in choppy trading on Wednesday amid worries over the Federal Reserve's possible tapering of its asset purchases as well as lackluster global growth prospects.
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