Wild cormorants have returned to Dianchi Lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province in a sign of the improved environment of what used to be one of the most polluted lakes in China.
At least eight people were killed and over 50 others injured when an unknown number of gunmen stormed a university in Pakistan's northwest district of Charsadda on Wednesday morning, reported local media.
Security at key entry points such as airports, train stations and ports in Malaysia has been strengthened as a precaution against terrorist attacks, said the country's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.
After the first 180 of 8,000 stranded Cuban migrants reached Mexico from Costa Rica on Wednesday, the next group will be made up of families with young children, although the date of the next flight has not yet been set.
A vehicle carrying gas tanks caught fire and exploded in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou on Thursday night, setting a nearby factory on fire.
The India-Pakistan foreign secretary talks, scheduled in Islamabad on January 15, seem uncertain. Even as national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval courted controversy by purportedly indicating that the talks may be called off, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif quickly set up an inter-agency investigation team to probe the leads India provided it regarding the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack.
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China's top graft buster has called for persistent anti-corruption effort to clean up the Communist Party of China (CPC) and boost the people's trust in the Party.
Afghan security forces, after days of fierce clashes with Taliban, retook the control of Darqad district bordering Tajikistan on Sunday morning, an official said.
Motorcycle-borne masked gunmen opened fire on a tourist bus of Arab-Israeli citizens and a hotel close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt during a rally of Muslim Brotherhood supporters today, but the tourists escaped unhurt.
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"Like the other countries, we also hope that peace and stability prevail in the region," said Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. in a news briefing in Malacanang, the presidential palace.
The masked executioner in the latest execution video by Islamic State (IS) is believed to be a Briton, BBC reported Tuesday.
At lunch break, pupils in Boshe, a small coastal village in south China's Guangdong Province, rush out of the school, laughing and chasing each other, just like in any other small town.
The 29-year-old woman fell 300m from slopes of the Footstool, in the Aoraki/Mount Cook national park and died shortly after being rescued
Nearly 3,000 rescue workers were racing against time on Monday to search for dozens of people missing after Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
Three New Zealand men have been arrested and convicted after an investigation into child abuse material on the Internet across at least 10 countries, the New Zealand Police said Tuesday.
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