Following a directive issued by the Australian government, Japan's Self-Defense Force (SDF) personnel who were deployed to help search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet were told Monday that their aerial searches have been disbanded.
China on Saturday published more than 110,000 confidential Japanese documents from wartime to expose Japan's history of invasion.
Urban management personnel in north China denied Sunday they buried dozens of stray dogs alive, as netizens have alleged on the Internet to spark outcry among pet lovers.
Death toll from a sunken South Korean ferry continue to rise to 181 on Friday morning as divers kept searching bodies, or possible survivors, inside the submerged vessel.
Pakistani fighter jets on Thursday pounded hideouts of the militants in the Khyber tribal region and killed 37 of them, military sources said.
On July 5, 2009, rock-flinging and knife-wielding thugs looted shops, torched vehicles, killed nearly 200 people and injured another 1,700 in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Internet access in the region was cut off in the wake of the riot to prevent violent crimes from happening again.
The relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard a capsized South Korean ferry were battered on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled out more bodies from the ill-fated ship.
Fears that the South Korean ferry sinking accident could become one of the country's worst maritime disasters in two decades have been rising as rescue operations are protracted.
Death toll in the South Korean ferry sinking accident surged on Tuesday afternoon to 108 as divers were intensively searching inside the submerged hull.
A passenger ship carrying 475 people, mostly high school students, capsized in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday, leaving at least nine people dead and 287 others still missing, local media reported Thursday citing the country's central disaster and safety countermeasures headquarters.
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.
Nineteen students and one adult were injured Wednesday morning after a stabbing spree inside a high school in the U.S. State of Pennsylvanian at the start of the school day.
The 5.3-magnitude quake that hit southwest China's Yunnan Province on Saturday morning has affected 71,200 residents, injuring 32 people, local authorities said Sunday.
Eight people were killed and 28 others injured on Sunday in clashes amid the ongoing local elections in Turkey, private Dogan News Agency reported.
Hundreds of flights were canceled on Thursday after public sector workers walked out at seven airports across Germany, local media reported.
Eleven people were killed in a fire on Wednesday afternoon in a clothing workshop in south China's Guangdong Province.
Aircraft and vessels reached the southern Indian Ocean to continue the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Wednesday, as Malaysia announced a further 122 objects that might be plane debris had been identified in satellite imagery.
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