At least 19 people died Wednesday in a shipwreck on Nile River in Cairo, capital of Egypt, according to the statement from the Egyptian Interior Ministry.
A total of 43 dinosaur egg fossils were found at a construction site in south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday afternoon.
2nd LD: Dozens killed, injured in central Vietnam's iron, steel construction site
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday razed another ancient remains of the archeological site of Khorsabad in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, a security source said.
Israeli security services on Monday shut down offices of three Islamic organizations in northern Israel over unrest at the holy site of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement.
The city of Shanghai was steeped in sorrow on Tuesday as citizens and victims' families visited the site of the New Year's Eve stampede to mark the seventh-day commemoration of the tragedy.
Being dubbed "Ha Long Bay on land," Trang An landscape complex is the first in Vietnam being recognized by UNESCO World Heritage Committee as a mixed cultural and natural site in 2014.
Two aircraft carrying remains of victims of MH17 that crashed on July 17 in eastern Ukraine landed Wednesday at Eindhoven Airport, where a group of heartbroken families are waiting.
The former Australian defense force official who led the international search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 arrived in Kiev on Monday to lead a 45-man Australian team, which will inspect the MH17 crash site.
Malaysia has stricken an agreement with Ukrainian rebels, who control the area around the MH17 crash site, to allow a group of international police personnel to enter the area to protect the international investigators, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister's office on Sunday.
The UN Security Council on Monday approved a resolution demanding safe and unrestricted access to the MH17 crash site, and calling for full cooperation with the international investigation.
Malaysia has announced the establishment of a joint investigation team on the MH17 incident, which comprises officials from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Britain and the United States.
There must be a "prompt, full, unimpeded and transparent" international investigation into the crash of doomed Malaysia airliner, U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minster Tony Abbott said in their telephone conversation on Sunday evening.
"There are plane debris and victims' bodies everywhere; it's too horrifying to be described with any words," said Olexandr, a villager living near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Eighteen people were killed and another three injured early Sunday morning after a rainstorm-triggered wall collapse in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province, said local authorities.
Thailand's United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), or red shirts, on Saturday started a three-day mass rally to show support for the caretaker government.
An emergency response team assembled by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) set out early Sunday from south China's Sanya Port in Hainan Province to the sea area where it is thought the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 might have crashed.
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