When Beijing retiree Zhang Yumin left home at daybreak on Sunday to catch an early morning flight to Kunming, she didn't know the spring city was overcast with terrorism and bloodshed.
An Indian army trooper Thursday killed five of his colleagues and wounded two others before shooting himself dead with his service rifle inside a camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority blasted Tokyo Electric Power Co. Wednesday for its inappropriate handling of fuel rods at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture which caused some of the highly volatile rods to be damaged.
A feeling of political uncertainty still haunted Ukrainians Sunday, although the country's lawmakers ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and appointed the parliament's speaker as interim president following more than three months of violent protests.
Several people were injured Thursday evening in clashes between soccer fans of Egypt's Ahly club and police forces at a Cairo stadium, where Ahly beat Tunisia's Sfaxien 3-2 and won the African Super Cup.
A total of 90 corpses have been recovered and buried in Nigeria northeast town of Bama a day after deadly attack by Boko Haram, local official told Xinhua on Thursday.
The Egyptian army managed on Monday to rescue four tourists who got lost in a mountainous area in South Sinai's Saint Catherine city, while three others were found dead and one is still missing, the military spokesperson said in a statement.
An underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S. state of New Mexico is monitored as radiation was detected earlier on the underground levels of the facility, U.S. media reported Sunday.
Four Islamist militants were arrested on Saturday night after armed clash with security forces, Tunisia' s national news agency TAP reported.
At least five people were killed and 31 others injured on Sunday night when a hand grenade attack targeted a cinema in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said.
An Egyptian criminal court decided to delay the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 130 others over the 2011 jailbreak to Feb. 22, state television reported on Tuesday.
Three luxury yachts have been destroyed in an early morning fire at a Gold Coast marina, local media reported on Wednesday.
Three people died and five were injured Saturday morning in a shooting that occurred in a shopping mall in Columbia of the U.S. state of Maryland, local police said.
The number of people killed due to landslides and flooding in southern Philippines went up to 56, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Friday.
Seven soldiers were injured after a land mine, which was believed to have been planted by members of the leftist rebel group New People's Army (NPA), exploded in southern Philippines on Friday, a military official said.
The performance of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III was rated "very good" by victims of typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, according to a survey published by research institute Social Weather Stations (SWS)
A pair of giant naked sculptures which appeared on the side of a building in east China's Shandong Province have been removed following a furious online spat.
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