Three venture capitalists were arrested after 12 of their investors attempted suicide in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said on Sunday.
Du Yijun was there to greet a bright New Year but never expected to have her life terminated before dawn.
At least 824 people were killed and 2,339 others injured in 372 bomb attacks, including 26 suicide bombings, that occurred across Pakistan during 2014, according to official statistics.
A New Year's Eve house party in Calgary in west Canada turned violent in the early hours of Thursday in a shooting that wounded seven people, according to the police.
At least 36 people died in a fatal stampede during New Year celebrations late Wednesday in Shanghai, according to local authorities as of Thursday night.
The search for survivors of the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry continued in the Adriatic on Tuesday, as confusion over the number of missing people prevailed.
Two people were killed and four went missing after two merchant ships collided while maneuvering in the Italian northern port of Ravenna on Sunday.
A Nigerian military court sitting in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Wednesday condemned 54 soldiers to death by firing squad, having found them guilty of mutiny in the West African country.
Cuban leader Raul Castro confirmed here Wednesday that the remaining three agents of the Cuban Five, who had been imprisoned in the United States, were released and returned to their home country.
At least 141 people including 132 children were killed and 133 others injured on Tuesday in a terrorist attack at the army-run public school at the Pakistan's northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar, said a spokesman of the Pakistani army.
Terrorism has torn at the heart of Australian society triggering widespread fear and anger after an armed man showing Islamic flags held 17 people hostage in a Sydney cafe.
Florists in the center of Sydney have sold out of flowers on Tuesday after thousands people started leaving a floral tribute at Martin Place following reports that three people are dead in the cafe siege.
Australia's Muslim-friendly 'I'll Ride With You' campaign goes viralAn Australian social media campaign "I'll Ride with You" which urges Australians to embrace the local Muslim population has become the No.1 trending topic on Twitter in the wake of Sydney's dramatic siege.
Sydney's terror siege ended in tragedy early Tuesday morning with three dead - including the lone gunman - as police stormed the cafe.
At least 4,707 people have been killed and 10,322 wounded in the violent conflicts in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, the United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic said here Monday.
A gunman, who held an unknown number of people hostage in a downtown Sydney cafe on Monday, has been identified after five hostages managed to flee the hours-long siege.
Six arrests were made as hundreds marched in Chicago on Saturday in protest of non-indictment of two police officers responsible for the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, two unarmed black men, over the past couple of months.
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