At least 13 people were killed in two bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, a police source said.
The number of people left homeless by the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit southern Peru on Sunday has climbed to 128, the National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI) said Monday.
More than 5,000 people are to be relocated in northeast China to protect a colony of red-crowned crane, a species with a population of only 2,000 in the world.
The Economist magazine this week named Vancouver as the world' s third most liveable city, only after Australia's Melbourne and Austria's Vienna.
At least 33 people were killed and over 40 others seriously wounded in the early hours of Friday as two buses collided on a highway some 50 km away from Red Sea resort city Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt's South Sinai province, a security source told Xinhua.
Testimonies gathered from civilians who fled the recent violence in Sinjar in north Iraq " have revealed appalling accounts of killing, abduction and sexual violence perpetrated against women and children," a UN spokesman said here Thursday, citing information from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
A man whose relatives claimed he had a history of mental illness slashed eight people with a knife in Guangzhou City of south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday night, local police said.
A massive United Nations aid operation for displaced Iraqis is underway as a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) cargo jet carrying 100 tons of humanitarian supplies landed in a northern city of the country on Wednesday, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
The Nepal government has said that the number of toll from flood and landslide had reached 105, while 20,000 people were displaced across the country.
The 15-member Southern African Development Community said Monday it will not impose travel ban on Ebola hit West African countries, as the international community taking measures against the spread of the deadly virus.
More than 20 people have been missing in a coal mine gas outburst Tuesday in east China's Anhui Province, local authorities said.
Sri Lanka's police have launched a special investigation into over 360 complaints alleging frauds by individuals posing as close relatives of President Mahinda Rajapaksa or his family, local media said here on Monday.
A total of 6,017 people were punished for breaches of anti-bureaucracy rules in July, the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s discipline agency said Sunday.
When thinking of Buddhists monks, words like traditional, secluded, ascetic and celibate spring to mind, but one Beijing temple is trying to overturn this cliche.
British think tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) new report has suggested that the country need to do more to improve the career opportunities for the young people, despite a new record low jobless rate in six years has been released Wednesday.
Tao Liming, former president of the Postal Savings Bank of China, will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on Wednesday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday called for wide-raging efforts to raise awareness about the importance of investing in and supporting young people with mental health conditions.
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