Riots left 27 people dead early Wednesday in a remote town in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said.
The riots happened at around 6 a.m. in Lukqun township of Shanshan County in Turpan Prefecture.
At least 5,000 people have been killed by flash flood in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last week, said a government official on Sunday.
Thirteen people were killed after a tourist bus plunged into a valley on Tuesday in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to local traffic police.
A total of 31 people died in Laos this year due to dengue, out of the 7,920 people infected, according to Lao government statistics.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged a “thorough cleanup” of the ruling Communist Party as part of a yearlong campaign aimed at ridding its ranks of formalism, bureaucracy and extravagance.
Flash floods brought about by tropical depression displaced nearly 98,000 people in Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Tuesday.
Most Hong Kong people support to develop northeast New Territories in order to relieve the strain on housing, according to results of a survey released on Monday.
At least 29 people were injured in police crackdown on protesters in Taksim square on Saturday evening, the Istanbul Governor's office said.
As HIV/AIDS is spreading to more younger people in Taiwan, the island health authorities warned at Taiwan HIV Testing Month that kicked off Sunday at Taipei Main Station.
A dam near Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg in eastern Germany burst overnight on Monday despite attempts to stabilise it, forcing the authorities to ask more than 20,000 people to leave their homes.
Five people, including the gunman, were killed Friday in a shooting spree in Santa Monica, California, police said at a press conference.
China would head a list of countries whose top-notch talents do not return to their home country after working or living overseas, said a report in Thursday's edition of the People's Daily.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Americans to help rebuild the tornado-ravaged Oklahoma City area during a visit to places worst hit by the deadly twister on Monday afternoon.
Thousands of Portuguese held a rally Saturday in capital Lisbon against government's tough austerity measures in return for the bailout from the international lenders for the debt-stricken country.
Pacific Islanders are being encouraged to get healthy and active through sport, with a 14 million AUD (13.5 million U.S. dollars) competitive grants program funded by Australian government agency AusAID.
At least 11 people including the head of provincial council were killed Monday morning when a suicide bombing rocked Pul-e-Khumri city, the provincial capital of northern Afghan province of Baghlan, a provincial source said.
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