Chinese ship sinks Vietnam fishing boat: Vietnam official
A Chinese ship rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat amid a tense territorial confrontation in the South China Sea over Beijing's deployment of an oil rig, a Vietnamese official said.
27 May 2014 11:43
New homes for Mexican village after landslide
Mexico's government presented on Monday 125 new homes to residents of a southwestern mountain village that was buried by a massive landslide that killed 71 people last year.
27 May 2014 11:16
'We know where missing girls are': Nigeria's top brass
Nigeria's highest ranking military officer on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to the families of more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants, revealing they had located the missing teenagers.
27 May 2014 10:24
90-people residence house near collapse in Uralsk
Residents of one of the houses in Uralsk have been urgently evacuated due to the danger of collapse, which came from the construction work on its ground floor.
Airport in east Ukraine's Donetsk shut after rebel raid
The main airport in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk shut down on Monday after being raided by dozens of armed separatists who vowed to keep up their resistance a day after presidential polls.
26 May 2014 14:59
Reward for S. Korea ferry owner upped to $500,000
Under-pressure South Korean prosecutors on Monday upped to $500,000 a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive businessman in connection with last month's ferry disaster.
26 May 2014 14:34
Japan woman's body sent by mail marked 'doll'
Murder detectives were Monday investigating the case of a young nurse whose corpse was sent by parcel post across Japan in a box that claimed to contain a doll.
Drugs case against Tunisia blogger dismissed
A prominent Tunisian blogger who accused police of fabricating drugs charges against him walked free from court on Friday after a judge threw out the case.
25 May 2014 17:41
Security tight in China's Urumqi after market attack
Security was tight Saturday in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang, two days after the volatile Muslim Uighur homeland suffered its bloodiest attack in years, leaving 43 people dead, including four assailants.
25 May 2014 14:09
Man strips naked outside White House
US Secret Service personnel sprang into action Friday outside the White House when a man stripped naked in what appeared to be a bizarre form of protest.
24 May 2014 19:07
Snatched women defend US kidnap victim
So why didn't she just leave?
That's the question being increasingly asked in California after a 25-year-old woman came forward saying she had been kidnapped a decade ago and held against her will, while being repeatedly sexually abused.
24 May 2014 17:47
Iran hangs man convicted of $2.6 bn bank scam
An Iranian businessman convicted of masterminding a $2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in the country's history, was hanged on Saturday, state media reported.
24 May 2014 14:46
India wins Italy appeal over helicopter deal
India on Friday partially won an appeal against an Italian court order rejecting its request to recover bank guarantees over a scrapped helicopter deal at the centre of a bribery scandal.
24 May 2014 11:25
Fire engulfs historic Scottish art school
A blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Friday, damaging a historic building designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
ICC sentences Congolese warlord Katanga to 12 years
The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain "Simba" Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a "particularly cruel" 2003 village massacre.
90-people residence house near collapse in Uralsk
Residents of one of the houses in Uralsk have been urgently evacuated due to the danger of collapse, which came from the construction work on its ground floor.
