Three people were fatally shot and two others were injured at an apartment complex in the U.S. city of Houston Wednesday afternoon, local media reported.
Nine Chinese tourists onboard the ill-fated bus that plunged into a ravine in Indonesia's leisure island of Bali on Monday afternoon were treated in three different hospitals on the island.
At least nine people were killed and others were missing after torrential rains struck the Italian island of Sardinia on Monday, Rai state television reported.
Authorities in Russia confirmed that all 50 people aboard a Boeing plane that crashed Sunday on landing in Russia's Kazan, capital of Tatarstan republic, were killed.
Due to the vast devastation and huge loss of lives wrought by super-typhoon Haiyan (locally named Yolanda) that slammed the Central Philippines a week ago, the country' economic growth could slow down and the incidence of poverty could rise.
Malaysian police said Saturday the gunmen who shot dead a tourist from Taiwan and kidnapped his wife on Pom Pom Island, Semporna, on Friday had links to a terrorist group.
At least 29 people were killed and 30 others injured when a freight train crashed into a number of vehicles near the Egyptian capital of Cairo in the early hours of Monday, official newspaper Al Ahram reported on its website.
Two training fighter jets collided and crashed on Wednesday in western Finland, killing one of the two pilots.
China's southern region is recovering from the devastation brought by Haiyan, the strongest typhoon so far this year. The typhoon has left at least seven people dead.
A Somali pirate will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison for his role in the 2011 hijacking of a sailboat off the coast of Africa that left four Americans dead, local report said Tuesday.
A bomb exploded in Johannesburg in South Africa on Tuesday afternoon, leaving 2 dead and five injured, police said.
Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 19 others at a house party in Houston, the U.S. state of Texas, local authorities said on Monday.
Two people were killed and 22 others were wounded late Saturday when gunfire erupted at a massive house party in Houston suburb of Cypress, authorities said Sunday.
Federal employees were furloughed for a combined total of 6.6 million days during the 16-day partial federal government shutdown starting Oct. 1, the most number in all government shutdowns of the country, the White House said Thursday.
Israeli border forces shot dead a Palestinian at a checkpoint in the West Bank on Thursday evening, an Israeli military spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua.
Three people were killed and another six injured late Wednesday during a shooting at a barbershop in eastern Detroit.
The captain of the tourist boat that capsized and sank off Thailand's seaside resort of Pattaya last week has confessed to negligence.
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