China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said on Wednesday that illegal medical practices have been contained after a three-month crack-down.
At least four paramilitary troops were killed and 10 others injured in an armed clash between militants and security forces in Pakistan's southwest Mastung district
At least 28 people were killed and 45 others injured when a suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Shiite muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan
Conservation officials were hopeful Tuesday that most of a pod of 46 stranded pilot whales
Two rockets fell on Monday evening in the vicinity near Israel's southern city of Eilat, Eilat's police confirmed to Xinhua.
Thousands of households and businesses across New Zealand's largest city of Auckland were left without power Tuesday as the tail of Cyclone June swept across the upper North Island.
Four people were confirmed dead after being buried in a landslide that took place in east China's Zhejiang Province Monday afternoon, local authority said.
Several explosions were heard in the vicinity of Israel's southern city of Eilat, an Israeli police spokesperson told Xinhua on Monday.
U.S. economic activity continued to expand across most regions and sectors from late November through the end of December, driven by consumer spending and industrial production, a Fed report said on Wednesday.
Heavy casualties were feared Tuesday afternoon when improvised explosive devices were suspected to have been detonated by a suicide bomber at a commercial area in Maiduguri, capital of northeast Nigeria's Borno State, sources told Xinhua.
A pilot and a doctor were killed on Tuesday when a medical helicopter with three people on board crashed on its way to the scene of a road traffic accident near Hole in the central Norwegian county of Buskerud.
Police have ordered the arrest of a suspect in their investigation of Monday's fatal explosion at a gambling den in southwest China's Guizhou Province, said local authorities on Wednesday.
The Israeli defense forces said two rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel on Monday afternoon, shortly after former prime minister Ariel Sharon was buried in his farm in the vicinity of the enclave.
Two people were shot at a movie theater in the U.S. state of Florida on Monday afternoon, and a suspect is in custody, local media reported.
Eight policemen including an officer were injured when a bomb went off near a police convoy in Pakistan's northwest Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.
Violence across Iraq killed 34 people and wounded some 94 on Sunday, while fierce clashes continued against al-Qaida militants in the country's western province of Anbar, police and officials said.
At least 10 policemen were killed and five others wounded in three violent attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
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