While China saw several successes in 2014, from the progress in the anti-corruption drive to the successful hosting of APEC, the year was also marred by deadly terrorist attacks which claimed the lives of scores and outraged the country.
At least 12 people have been rescued after a five-storied building collapsed in the northeast of Nairobi, the Kenya capital, on Sunday night.
Du Yijun was there to greet a bright New Year but never expected to have her life terminated before dawn.
At least 824 people were killed and 2,339 others injured in 372 bomb attacks, including 26 suicide bombings, that occurred across Pakistan during 2014, according to official statistics.
A New Year's Eve house party in Calgary in west Canada turned violent in the early hours of Thursday in a shooting that wounded seven people, according to the police.
At least 36 people died in a fatal stampede during New Year celebrations late Wednesday in Shanghai, according to local authorities as of Thursday night.
The search for survivors of the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry continued in the Adriatic on Tuesday, as confusion over the number of missing people prevailed.
A mass grave with the remains of 70 people, who had been killed by the Islamic State (IS) militants at an earlier time, was uncovered Monday in the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the state news agency SANA reported.
Two people were killed and four went missing after two merchant ships collided while maneuvering in the Italian northern port of Ravenna on Sunday.
Many people are still trapped in the Italian-flagged ferry which caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday and waiting to be rescued on Sunday night.
Natural disasters bring vulnerabilities of developing countries into sharper focus. In Asia 2014 has been a whirlwind of typhoons, droughts, floods and the inevitable human devastation they create, leaving behind wrecked economies and lives.
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There is an old South Korean idiom often cited in year-end parties: "Sending the year with many affairs and many hardships" to welcome a happy new year. This year, South Koreans have to send the year with more affairs than ever that came from all directions on land, at sea and in the air.
Train tickets for Valentine's Day – Feb 14 – are predicted to be the hardest-to-get based on statistics, according to Beijing-based Internet technology company Qihu 360.
Terrorism has torn at the heart of Australian society triggering widespread fear and anger after an armed man showing Islamic flags held 17 people hostage in a Sydney cafe.
The Kwangbok shopping complex, located in downtown Pyongyang, offered promotions on Monday in memory of the Dec. 15 visit by late top leader Kim Jong Il to the supermarket three years ago.
The fruits of economic cooperation across the Taiwan Strait should be shared among all the people, on both sides, declared senior officials from the Chinese mainland at a cross-Strait entrepreneurs summit which opened in Taipei on Monday.
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