Cradle hell of a year-old in KazakhstanWhat happened to this little boy has shocked Kazakhstan. Motives behind people's actions can be puzzling and at times disturbing.
Ethnic Kazakhs life in ShanghaiAidyn Yeleusizov is an ethnic Kazakh born in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He has moved to Shanghai 10 years ago. Currently, he works as an engineer. Lives with his wife and a son.
US child migrant crisis: one family's storyIt took Dora and Elias six weeks before finally reuniting with their 13-year-old daughter in Los Angeles after she fled El Salvador.
A dying business: family graves in JapanEvery once in a while, Kumiko Kano meets a group of people with whom she has decided to spend eternity, one of a growing number in Japan who are shunning the expense and commitment of a traditional family grave.
04 July 2014
Mother, three children jump to death: Japan policePolice in Japan are probing a possible family suicide after a mother and her three small children plunged to their deaths from an apartment complex, they said.
17 June 2014
Flight MH370 families get $50,000 in first payoutsMalaysia Airlines' insurer has begun paying the families of passengers onboard Flight MH370 $50,000 each in initial compensation three months after the jet disappeared, a government official said
Race to recover bodies from Korea ferry as storms loomDive teams raced Friday to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed and the victims' families angrily pressed officials to wrap up the recovery effort.
25 April 2014
Garcia Marquez in 'very fragile' condition: familyColombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is in "very fragile" condition and at risk of complications while recovering at his Mexico City home from a recent hospitalization, his family said.
Late Motown icon Marvin Gaye remembered on 75th birthdayFamily, friends and fans of Marvin Gaye came together Wednesday to pay joyful hommage the late Motown legend and native Washingtonian on what would have been his 75th birthday.