Archaeologists have discovered details which could confirm a shipwreck found in the Yellow Sea to be the cruiser Zhiyuan, sunk by the Japanese navy 121 years ago during the Sino-Japanese War.
Three of the four men arrested in Wednesday's anti-terror raids in western Sydney have been released though police believe 15-year-old Farhad Jabar who killed police employee Curtis Cheng in an act of terror did not act alone.
The otherwise busy main road at Baridhara diplomatic zone in Bangladesh capital Dhaka looked almost deserted on Monday, with little human activity and vehicular traffic.
The fall of Kunduz city to the Taliban and the week-long clashes between government security forces and the insurgents in the counter-offensive had a devastating impact on civilians who have been left without basic services, food and potable water.
At least seven remains of bodies have been found by archeologists from a warship sunken by the Japanese navy during a Sino-Japanese War 121 years ago.
The death toll by air strikes at a hospital run by medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz city has risen to 22, the agency said in a statement on Sunday.
U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars.
A total of 1,603 criminal defendants were declared innocent by Chinese courts from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2014, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Monday.
Some 2,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the outbreak of the conflict in the eastern parts of Ukraine nearly a year and a half ago, a government military official said here Monday.
The government of Nepal has tightened up security in capital Kathmandu and Constituent Assembly premise as the country is all set to promulgate its new constitution Sunday evening.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that one of the main reasons behind the current refugee crisis in the European Union (EU) is that its member states have failed to make concerted efforts to confront the issue.
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Thursday night said that FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has been put on leave and released from his duties effective immediately until further notice.
At Giza's poor neighborhood of Boulak el-Dakrour, a gathering of residents was held outside a small home at a narrow street to offer the condolences over the death of Ahmed Owais, a driver working for a tour company, who went to the Western Desert with a group of Mexican tourists but never came back.
An Australian detention center earmarked to house Syrian refugees has been slammed as a "national disgrace".
Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday confirmed a total of eight Mexican tourists have died in an Egyptian military airstrike on their convoy.
Egyptian security forces on Monday mistakenly killed 12 people and injured 10 others in the country's western desert area of Al-Wahat, the state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.
GUIYANG, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Gloomy domestic liquor market has not stopped Chinese brands of liquor standing out among 1,397 spirits in the 2015 Brussels international liquor competition held in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province.
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