A taskforce headed by an official from the State Administration of Work Safety left Beijing on Sunday for the site of a deadly traffic accident that killed 44 in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday.
Death toll has risen to 18 from the latest twin attacks in Kenya's coastal county of Lamu after some bodies were discovered early Sunday, a humanitarian agency said.
Approximately 2.2 billion people around the world are "poor or near-poor," a United Nations flagship report said on Thursday, calling for stronger collective global action in response to vulnerabilities in order to securing human development progress.
Detian Falls, straddling the China-Vietnam border, attracts even more tourists in May, the wet season.
The First ASEAN Defense Interaction Program (ADIP) has been held in Brunei Darussalam, according a press release posted on the Defense Ministry's website on Thursday.
Keiji Saganaka, a Japanese armyman, confessed he had killed 831 Chinese people, including 434 civilians, during Japan's aggression war against China in the late 1930s, according to archives.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday underscored the intractability of history as the nation commemorated the start of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 77 years ago.
Two people died at the scene and 32 were landed in hospital with injuries after a bus explosion in Guangzhou Tuesday evening, police said.
As many as 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know of their HIV-positive status, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said Wednesday in a report.
Friends who are not biologically related still tend to resemble each other when it comes to genetics, revealed a U.S. study published Monday that proved that "friends are the family you choose."
To people have been killed and two others missing in rivers in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which has seen incessant showers for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, police said Monday.
At least four people have been confirmed dead, with one wounded, in a South Korean helicopter crash that occurred in the country's southern city on Thursday morning, YTN and Yonhap News Agency reported.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new online platform to seek governance ideas from citizens, especially the youth, in a bid to bridge the gap between the public and the government, local media reported Sunday.
Forty-eight people have been confirmed dead and 10 injured in a Taiwan plane crash Wednesday, the airliner said in a statement Thursday morning.
Shen Hua, a chemical plant executive, filed an application for a new project six months ago, and he is still waiting for local government approval.
At least 20 people died and scores of others were injured after a metro train derailed in Moscow during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, the Russian Health Ministry said.
A special commission appointed to investigate thousands of missing people during Sri Lanka's three- decade war has received nearly 400 new complaints during hearings in the formerly war torn areas, an official said here on Thursday.
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