The three Asian doctors that were killed by unknown attackers in the northeast Nigeria's town of Potiskum are from Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Nigerian police in northeast state of Yobe confirmed on Sunday.
At least four people, including a policeman, were killed in political violence triggered by Thursday 's hartal (strike) called by Bangladesh Jamat-e-Islami party demanding the release of its leaders who face charges of war crimes.
Police were hunting for a suspect Wednesday after three people were shot and injured in Phoenix, the U.S. state of Arizona.
At least five more people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38 in such attacks during the week from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, local media and police said.
Poor air quality in some cities of China, particularly in the capital Beijing, has hit international headlines and it is a problem which big cities in industrialized countries have repeatedly come up against for decades.
Most of the casualties in a fatal bus collision in central China's Henan Province on Thursday have been confirmed as employees of Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contractor.
An operation launched by the Algerian army to free hostages detained by an armed group in a gas field facility in the southernmost province of Illizi has ended, the official APS news agency reported Thursday, without providing the death toll of the hostages.
Dozens of people were killed or injured Tuesday when two rockets struck the main university of Syrian northern Aleppo city, activists and local media said, as mortar shells rained down districts of the capital Damascus, killing one person and injuring others.
Two people were injured in a shooting incident at a high school in the U.S. state of California on Thursday morning, and the shooter is now in custody, local police said.
The horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting has reignited the debate over gun control in the United States but at the same time gun sales have increased dramatically in the country.
Two assassins of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were Sunday honored by a senior Sikh clergyman at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, northwest India, to mark the 24th anniversary of their hanging, local media reported.
A splendid firework show and countdown celebration was held in Hong Kong on the eve of 2013 new year.
Near-term disaster averted, long-term problems remain Negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff” went down to the last possible moment before congressional policymakers finally approved legislation that voided sizable tax increases and spending cuts that would almost certainly have tipped the economy into recession.
Apple's flagship store in the famous Opera district of Paris was hit and looted by four gunmen on the New Year's Eve, with million-euro-worth gadgets being robbed away, local media reported Wednesday.
Friday's knife attack near a primary school in central Henan Province shocked the public across China.
Three men who attempted to hijack a plane in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in June, were sentenced to death on Tuesday.
At least two soldiers were killed and two others were injured when some unidentified militants fired at an army vehicle in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, local media reported Wednesday.
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