A huge float carried by an out-of-control truck at the Rio de Janeiro samba parade struck at least six people, seriously injuring two.
Korean workers sleep only six hours on average but work for more than 10 hours a day, a straw poll suggests.
Mr Lu Hengjiu, 35, used to spend hours playing online games, accumulating 10,000 yuan (S$2,016) worth of virtual assets at one point.
It’s been six years of “long days and long nights,” but President Aquino isn’t thinking of taking it easy just yet. “I’ll be working till the last hour of my presidency,” the President told The STAR in a recent interview at Malacañang. “I have to lead by example, and we have six years to do everything we can do. My term ends June 30, noon. We have to be able to face the mirror each day and say, ‘We did the maximum’.”
Korea and six Central American nations began another round of negotiations for a free trade agreement on Monday.
South Korea Monday replaced its representative at the six-party talks for the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula with Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hong-Kyun.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Friday that six-party talks, which exclude the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), should be sought to restart the dialogue channel to dismantle the DPRK's nuclear program.
BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Air pollution forecasts for six cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are likely to be taken as a whole when emergency responses are being considered, said a plan released on Monday.
At lease six people have been killed and six others were missing in a ferry capsizing incident in the Chindwin River in Myanmar in the weekend, the authorities confirmed Monday.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is bracing for a second leadership challenge in the space of six months, as pressure on his position continues to increase on Monday.
China's top anti-corruption watchdog publicly criticized six more major state-owned enterprises on Wednesday after inspections uncovered corruption and discipline violations.
A huge fire and explosion on Tuesday killed several firefighters and hospitalized six others at a fuel depot outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev, according to the interior minister.
Authorities in the U.S. State of Maryland said Wednesday a deadly fire at a residential mansion in the state's Annapolis last week was caused by a dry Christmas tree, causing six deaths, including four children,
Vietnam tops among the participants of the 10th ASEAN Skills Competition which finished here on Tuesday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday voiced his hope to see a comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program at an early date.
Iran has denied linking any future cooperation with the United States against terrorists in Iraq to the removal of western sanctions, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.
A knife-wielding man went on a slashing rampage at a village's intersection in south China, leaving six civilians and one auxiliary policeman injured on Sunday, local authorities said.
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