Rainstorm-triggered natural disasters over the past four days have left 28 people dead and 66 more missing across China, according to the latest official count.
One person was confirmed dead and 15 others missing in southwest China's Sichuan Province as of Tuesday evening after severe rainstorms battered the region, including some quake-stricken areas, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Lost in its search for a balance between economic growth and fiscal austerity, the European economy has been mired in recession. Due to the "austerity trap," the predicament is very likely to remain at least through the rest of the year.
The Brazilian police evicted Tuesday a group of protesters who have been camping outside the governor's residence in Rio de Janeiro state for 10 days, local media reported.
Storms and flooding left 11 people dead and four others missing in southwest China's Sichuan Province as of Tuesday, according to the provincial flood control office.
The Indonesian police have already turned over the result of their investigation to the Environment Ministry pointing to two Malaysian-owned firms as having started the forest fire in Sumatra, triggering heavy smog in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to officially nominate former Deputy Attorney General James Comey to replace Robert Mueller as next director of the FBI, U.S. media quoted White House officials as saying on Thursday.
New Zealand's capital Wellington was cleaning up Friday after one of the worst storms in decades smashed roads, cut air links and left thousands of homes without power, while other parts of the country were dealing with snow and floods.
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.
Two patients have contracted Legionnaires' disease at a hospital in Australian eastern city Brisbane, with the bacteria found in the hot water system and bathrooms in the facility's east wing on Thursday.
Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said on Sunday that more than 1,700 people have been arrested in the demonstrations sweeping the country over the past days.
The Philippine midterm elections commenced at polling locations across the country early on Monday morning.
Property developers' sales will slow down, while the outlook for China's property market remains stable, Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday in Hong Kong.
Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson has made the seismic decision to retire at the end of the season, putting down a full stop of his era at Old Trafford. He will become a director of the Red Devil instead.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the body of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was injured in an attack inside jail last week and died of wounds early Thursday, will be handed over to Indian officials.
The arrival of the H7N9 bird flu has affected China's tourism industry, with tourists shunning wetlands and farms while restaurants eliminate chicken and duck from their menus.
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