A passenger ship with 459 people aboard, mostly high school students, sank in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday morning, leaving at least two people dead and 293 others missing, a senior government official said.
Two militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant outfit were killed and two Indian policemen were wounded Monday in a 20-hour-long gunfight in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
A fierce gunfight between militants and Indian troops Sunday broke out in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
At least two Indian security forces personnel were killed and four others injured in a landmine blast triggered by left-wing Naxalite rebels Thursday in the eastern state of Bihar where polling for the third phase of general elections is underway, a police official said.
Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan on Tuesday held talks with his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel on promoting the sound and stable development of a new type of military relations.
Diplomats from Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are exploring the possibility of secret meeting in near future after resuming governmental talks last weekend, local media reported late Saturday.
China and Belgium pledged to deepen their all-round partnership of friendship and cooperation here on Monday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping is paying a state visit to the European country.
China and the European Union pledged to deepen their partnership for peace, growth, reform and civilization, according to a joint statement released here on Monday.
Rain and hailstorms since Saturday have brought landslides and flight delays to south China's Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, held talks here on Wednesday to blueprint the future relationship between the two countries.
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday visited a high school in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province, expressing expectation of future progress by Chinese youth.
Tetramine, a banned neurotoxic rodenticide, caused the food poisoning that killed two children at a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Thursday.
Suspected food poisoning in a rural kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province killed two pupils and left 30 hospitalized on Wednesday, local authorities said.
For the past several days, life has been awash with anxiety, despair and anger for the hundreds of parents whose children attended two kindergartens caught in an antiviral drug scandal.
Red Cross officials from Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold a two-day meeting from March 19 in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
A powerful explosion leveled two residential buildings in New York's East Harlem neighborhood on Wednesday morning, killing two people and wounding at least 22 others. More than 12 people remained missing, authorities said.
Many may suspect that people living in the Chinese capital are more interested in the ongoing political sessions than those in Guangdong, but are unable to prove it.
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