Turning down temperatures at home and office may help you fight obesity, according to a new study published Wednesday in the U.S. journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Four people were confirmed dead after being buried in a landslide that took place in east China's Zhejiang Province Monday afternoon, local authority said.
Widespread flooding afflicting Indonesian capital of Jakarta killed eight people and forced over 60,000 others to escape
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the suicide car bombing in an east Lebanese city near the border with Syria, calling it a "terrorist attack."
Three people were killed and 30 others injured when a blast hit a passenger train in central Pakistan's Rajanpur District on Friday morning, police said.
Police have ordered the arrest of a suspect in their investigation of Monday's fatal explosion at a gambling den in southwest China's Guizhou Province, said local authorities on Wednesday.
At least three persons were killed and more than 20 others injured in a stampede which broke out during celebrations of a Hindu festival in the eastern Indian state of Bihar in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior police officer said.
Twenty-two people were arrested on Saturday night in the Spanish city of Burgos, bringing the total of arrested people to 38 since a protest against a street construction plan started Friday night, officials said.
A hard-hitting New Zealand road safety advertisement has gone viral with millions of Internet hits from around the world and requests from other governments to use the ad, the New Zealand government said Thursday.
At least 15 people were killed and 26 others injured when two passenger vans coming from opposite directions fell into a ravine after hitting each other near Pakistan's northern city of Murree on Wednesday night, police officials and hospital sources said.
Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said on Monday that ageing population and foreseeable shortage of labor force may considerably drag the city’s economy behind.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday visited some victims of recent terror blasts in Volgograd, a city of one million people in central Russia that has endured suicide bombings since October, discussing public security with high ranking officials.
Casualties were feared as a bus carrying 30 to 40 passengers plunged into a gorge in the western Indian state of Maharashatra Thursday morning, said local TV channel CNN-IBN.
The 125th Tournament of Roses Parade, under the theme of "Dreams Come True", was held in U.S. western city of Pasadena in Los Angeles county on Wednesday.
Statesmen have always been focusing on economic growth and welfare development, but now it is the time for them to pay more attention to people's inner happiness, a Finnish social science professor said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on Saturday declared that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni shrine was a mistake that must be corrected.
A female suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at a railway station in southern Russia, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said Sunday.
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