Apple's freshly sliced shares climbFreshly split Apple shares closed at a high, with investors evidently betting the California company will debut popular new gadgets.
20 August 2014
China's former security chief under investigation: XinhuaChina's former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation, the official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday, in a move targeting one of the ruling Communist Party's most powerful men.
30 July 2014
Historic Chinese church gutted by fire: XinhuaA fire largely destroyed one of China's oldest churches early Monday, state media reported, gutting the inside of the late 19th century structure.
29 July 2014
Veteran Catalan leader reveals family kept money abroadA former premier of Spain's Catalonia region and one of its biggest political powerbrokers said Friday his family kept undeclared money abroad for over 30 years and apologised for the "mistake".
26 July 2014
Kazakhstan steps up space researchThe Tian Shan Astronomical Observatory in the mountains near Almaty, Kazakhstan has completed modernising its two telescopes.
24 July 2014
MH17 black boxes to be sent to UK lab: MalaysiaThe black boxes recovered from the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine will be sent to British aviation investigators for analysis, Malaysia has said.
23 July 2014
Inside Mexican shelter, a world of fear and abuseA nauseating smell of rotting food and excrement hangs in the air inside the Mexican shelter where authorities say hundreds of children lived in squalor and endured physical and sexual abuse.
Crete counts on cravings to catch mystery crocA Greek reptile expert began an operation to trap a two-metre long crocodile that mysteriously appeared in a man-made lake on the tourist island of Crete last weekend.
11 July 2014
Indian police investigate revenge rape of 11-year-oldPolice in eastern India have made two arrests over the rape of an 11-year-old girl which was allegedly ordered by a village leader to punish her brother, an officer said.
11 July 2014
Vials of smallpox discovered in US govt storage roomFederal investigators are probing how vials of smallpox made their way into a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration lab near the US capital, health authorities said.