U.S. law enforcement officials have shot and killed at least 385 people so far this year, a rate of more than two per day, The Washington Post has reported.
Victorians are six times more likely to die from a dangerously high salt intake than in a road accident, a new study has revealed.
About half of Samsung Group's subsidiaries posted "earnings shock" in the first quarter, boosting worry about the future of the South Korea's largest conglomerate under the third-generation leadership, data showed Monday.
Rescuers are continuing to clear roads and comb through quake rubble in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, after the end of the 72 hour "golden period".
The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to 4,264 people, including 20 mountaineers, and more than 7,000 others were injured, said the National Emergency Operation Center of Nepal's Home Ministry on Tuesday morning.
Diet more important than exercise to lose weight: study
A giant study of Australians exercising habits has determined people need to be vigorous enough when doing so to work up a sweat to reap the benefits.
One of the reasons of China's economic slowdown is that it is a "greatly deliberate" policy of the Chinese government in a search for a better quality of growth rather than just focusing on the quantity, said Jim O'Neill, a British economist, on Wednesday.
All countries experience tension between the need to develop resources for the good of all and the responsibility to preserve nature, and this is a "difficult balance", Britain's Prince William said while speaking in China on Wednesday.
All countries experience tension between the need to develop resources for the good of all and the responsibility to preserve nature, and this is a "difficult balance", Britain's Prince William said while speaking in China on Wednesday.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the largest of its kind in the world, kicked off at a downtown park in the U.S. city of Houston Tuesday, with the country's best breeds of livestock on display and an expected attendance of over 2 million visitors.
The United Nations on Wednesday said that as of Feb. 22, more than 72,000 homeowners have been cleared to receive construction material for shelter repairs and close to 50,000 have already procured construction material to date.
The U.S. dollar lost against other currencies Thursday as the retail sales data of the country came out worse than expected.
One of the country's highest-profile fugitives - the former general manager of an insurance intermediary who was dubbed the "runaway beauty boss" - was given the death penalty with two years reprieve on Wednesday for illegally raising more than 1 billion yuan ($160 million).
Around 1,600 workers at the WANEK Woodcraft Co., Ltd. in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province had been given free rubella vaccines following an outbreak of the disease at the company that started early this month, local Vietnam News daily reported Thursday.
The snowstorms that started Monday evening across the U.S. northeast coast continued to ravage the region Tuesday, with millions of people living in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and other metropolises in the area affected.
More than 20 percent of African people staying in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are earning more than 30,000 yuan ($4,838) a month, according to a recent survey by Southern Metropolis Daily.
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