At least nine people were killed and others were missing after torrential rains struck the Italian island of Sardinia on Monday, Rai state television reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed Thursday his country's support for Syria in a phone conversation with his Syrian counterpart, the state-run SANA news agency reported.
Brunei-born entrepreneur Soon Loo joined the ranks of famed personalities such as Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy, Jackie Chan and Andy Lau when he received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of the World award on October 8 this year.
The United Nations appealed Tuesday to the international community for 301 million U.S. dollars to be extended to the victims of typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
At least 100 people are feared dead after a storm hit the coastal areas of Somalia's northeastern autonomous state of Puntland over the weekend, local authorities said on Monday.
Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 19 others at a house party in Houston, the U.S. state of Texas, local authorities said on Monday.
Two people were killed and 22 others were wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted at a massive house party in Houston suburb of Cypress, authorities said Sunday.
Nearly 70 percent of Chinese people are opposed to a proposal to increase the retirement age, as the country looks to improve its pension system, according to a survey on Friday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Thursday condemned a recent terrorist attack in Iran's Saravan which killed over a dozen Iranian border guards, his spokesperson said.
Four people arrested earlier this month, who were accused of carrying out sabotage in one of Iran's nuclear establishments, were "thieves" not "saboteurs", Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Wednesday.
Forty passengers were burnt alive when a bus caught fire in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh early Wednesday, police said.
Major concerns for people who reside in the remote parts of Nepal in the upcoming Constituent Assembly election are development, economic prosperity and employment generation, political leaders and locals from different districts told Xinhua on Wednesday.
A senior Chinese Internet official on Wednesday called on major websites to become a force to "spread positive energy" and play a leading role in guiding public opinion.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum took the "Jewish Refugees in Shanghai" exhibition to Los Angeles on Sunday.
A driver and two passengers were confirmed dead after a jeep went into the crowd and caught fire in front of the Tian'anmen Rostrum in downtown Beijing on Monday noon.
A netizen's tongue-in-cheek "top torture ranking" of modern inconveniences has become a hot topic in cyberspace and aroused fresh discussion of the pressure Chinese people face in a fast-developing country.
At least 22 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands affected by flash flood in the cyclone-hit eastern Indian states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh due to heavy rains over the past few days, said local TV channel CNN- IBN Friday.
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