China's central authority has started the 10th round of inspection work, with inspection teams having been deployed to 16 agencies and provincial regions, the top anti-graft body said Sunday.
At least seven policemen, deployed to guard polio-eradication teams, were killed and three others injured when gunmen opened fire at them in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday, officials said.
A relatively dry spell in Chennai and its neighbourhood brought relief to residents and rescue agencies who hope the receding river waters will reduce the number of flooded areas make relief work more effective.
Rescue and relief work are still under way as the death toll from an east China landslide has risen to 21, with 16 people still missing, as of Sunday night.
Like the eternal war between Android and iOS fans, ardent supporters of two football simulation game franchises - Pro Evolution Soccer and Fifa - have always claimed their game is the best football simulator. Trevor Tan tries both to choose the winner.
Israel resumed shelling the Gaza Strip, less than an hour into the temporary humanitarian truce on Sunday, saying the fire was in response to continued fire by Hamas.
The first teams of U.S. military advisers have begun their mission in Baghdad and more troops are on their way, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
The Japanese Coast Guard announced that its teams rescued an Indonesian sailor and found the bodies of three sailors on Monday, one day after they went missing with three other crew members, following a fire on board a tuna fishing boat in waters far off the western Japanese island of Shikoku.
suicide car bombing has hit a gas station in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa town of Hermel, leaving at least four people dead and 20 others wounded, caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told local LBCI TV Saturday.