A court in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka Tuesday awarded death to 152 personnel of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), previously known as Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), for a two-day horrendous mutiny which left 74 people dead including 57 officers deputed from the Army.
Four people arrested earlier this month, who were accused of carrying out sabotage in one of Iran's nuclear establishments, were "thieves" not "saboteurs", Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Wednesday.
Israel will release a second group of Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday night after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal objecting to the release.
Forty passengers were burnt alive when a bus caught fire in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh early Wednesday, police said.
Iran hanged 16 prisoners, who it called "terrorist elements", on Saturday to revenge an earlier bloody border attack in which 17 people were killed.
Egypt's prosecutor general Hesham Barakat ordered Tuesday four police officers to be remanded in custody over charges of killing 36 members of Muslim Brotherhood last August, state TV reported.
Six paratroopers were killed in an explosion at a firing range in western Russia, a high-ranking military officer said Tuesday.
Infants who were bottle fed were more likely to be at risk of developing hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, than those who were breastfed, U.S. researchers said Monday.
Government officials here said the impact of the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit the island- provinces of Bohol and Cebu in central Philippines on Oct. 15 has been negligible even if the total number of fatalities has risen to 188.
At least 39 people were killed and 51 others wounded in three bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
A small plane carrying ten skydivers and one pilot crashed near the city of Fernelmont in southeastern Belgium on Saturday, killing all people on board.
Four Chinese students were drowned on Friday when they were swimming in the sea of Marsa Matrouh, an Egypt's northwestern coastal city, Chinese Embassy confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
Gunmen opened fire on a group of wedding guests outside a Christian church in Egypt's capital of Cairo on Sunday night, killing at least two and wounding 12 others, official news agency MENA reported.
Four Chinese students were drowned on Friday when they were swimming in the sea of Marsa Matrouh, an Egypt's northwestern coastal city, Chinese Embassy confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.
Three suspects have been arrested over the murder of two toddlers whose bodies were found in a public toilet in the Diepsloot township north of Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday.
At least 99 people have been confirmed dead in the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in central Philippines, the country's disaster relief agency said Wednesday.
Indian authorities Monday said the death toll in Sunday's stampede at a temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has crossed 110.
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