The death toll from the ambush conducted by terrorist group Abu Sayyaf in southern Philippine province of Sulu on Monday has risen to 19, with 13 others injured, the military said.
"There are plane debris and victims' bodies everywhere; it's too horrifying to be described with any words," said Olexandr, a villager living near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The Gaza Strip witnessed the bloodiest day on Sunday since Israel launched its offensive there nearly two weeks ago, as the death toll passed 100 in a single day after Israeli artillery bombing on the most densely populated neighborhood of Sheja'eya in eastern Gaza city.
Fresh salvos of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip sent Israelis sprinting for bomb shelters across the country on Thursday as Israel's military offensive on the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave entered its third day.
China's State Archives Administration on Sunday publicized the confession of Japanese war criminal Nosuke Sasaki, the latest in a series of similar publications.
The Thai military junta released 14 Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned last month for holding fake working visas, a Cambodian spokesman said Friday.
About 44 Taliban militants have been killed in a series of military operations in Afghanistan since early Thursday, said the country's Interior Ministry on Friday morning.
Pakistani fighter jets on Monday continued air strikes on the militants' positions in North Waziristan tribal region, killing 25 terrorists and destroying eight hideouts, the military said.
China's patent business is booming in terms of the number of applications, but the quality of patents is still poor, according to a Monday report to the top legislature.
Philippine securities forces were ordered to neutralize the terrorist Abu Sayyaf members responsible for the death of seven soldiers, including a military officer, a senior government official said Sunday.
Thirteen mobsters were killed and three policemen were injured Saturday morning in an attack on a police station in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the local government said.
As many as 29 among 30 death sentences were upheld for appellants involved in Vietnam's biggest drug case ever.
At least three people were killed and six others injured on Thursday evening in a suicide attack at a house in Pakistan's northwestern metropolitan of Peshawar, local media reported.
After hours of flip-flop, India finally confirmed Wednesday that 40 of its nationals working for a Turkish construction company were abducted in violence-hit Iraq.
At least eight people including two women and one policeman were killed and over 80 others injured on Tuesday during clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's eastern metropolitan of Lahore, local media and officials said.
Almost a quarter of all New Zealanders were identified as disabled last year and the proportion is growing as the population ages, according to survey results released by a government statistics agency on Tuesday.
Police curfew was declared in a Sri Lankan town on Sunday after Muslims clashed with a Buddhist hardline organization. A large number of people were injured while two shops and a van were set on fire, local media reported.
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