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Masked gunmen have shot dead an Islamic teacher after bursting into his home in Russia's Dagestan, in the latest such killing in the volatile region, investigators said.

• 12 апреля 2014, 11:01

A Chinese woman has been detained for killing two children at a preschool nursery and making 30 others ill with poisoned food, state media said.

• 10 апреля 2014, 10:30

A bomb tore through a bustling Islamabad market on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, police and hospital officials said, the latest violence to hit government peace talks with the Taliban.

• 09 апреля 2014, 13:35

More than 10 tigers have been killed as "visual feasts" to entertain officials and rich businessmen in a Chinese city, state media reported.

• 27 марта 2014, 17:01

A horrendous incident occurred at the Karaganda Zoo: children witnessed a baby bear being eaten by jaguars.

• 22 марта 2014, 13:01

At least six Taliban suicide attackers stormed a police station in the centre of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Thursday, killing three people in a major assault ahead of the presidential election.

• 20 марта 2014, 14:42

A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers, government officials said, while the coalition said it was investigating reports of the incident.

• 06 марта 2014, 17:18

At least 74 people were killed in attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants this weekend, taking the overall death toll this year beyond 300, with no apparent end in sight to the carnage.

• 03 марта 2014, 11:44

An Indian rickshaw driver stabbed his American wife to death before setting himself ablaze, police said Saturday, in a violent end to a whirlwind romance scripted in the backdrop of the Taj Mahal.

• 22 февраля 2014, 14:21

A ruling party candidate in Turkish local elections next month has been killed in an armed attack in Istanbul.

• 13 февраля 2014, 17:12

More than a dozen bodies were unearthed in a troubled region of southwestern Mexico where the military also engaged in a deadly firefight that killed one person.

• 12 февраля 2014, 16:02

Two women were killed when a massive falling boulder hit a passing train in the French Alps on Saturday, leaving one of its carriages dangling precariously off a steep, snow-covered embankment.

• 10 февраля 2014, 11:43

An ex-gangster has been jailed for 20 years in Singapore for burning his former lover to death, in a case the judge said was one of the worst of its kind in the city-state.

• 28 января 2014, 17:59

A stampede killed at least 18 people in Mumbai early Saturday when a large crowd gathered to pay their last respects to a Muslim spiritual leader, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

• 18 января 2014, 14:50

A Haitian judge on Friday indicted nine people, including several with close ties to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in the murder of a prominent journalist, officials said.

• 18 января 2014, 12:59

Two teenage American high school students were shot and injured Friday by a student gunman who whipped out a handgun at the end of the school day, police said.

• 18 января 2014, 11:48

The murder of a soap opera star has brought to light the harsh reality that Venezuelans endure daily: rampant violence and impunity allowing most criminals to get away with murder.

• 11 января 2014, 13:39

Gunmen shot dead a former Miss Venezuela and her British-born partner in front of their five-year-old daughter, who was wounded in an attack that dismayed the crime-plagued nation, authorities said Tuesday.

• 08 января 2014, 18:11

Thousands of Christians are killed every year because of their faith and the persecution is becoming more widespread.

• 26 декабря 2013, 10:11

Thousands of South Sudanese have been killed in over a week of violence with reports of bodies piled in mass graves, the UN said Tuesday, as the Security Council agreed to nearly double its peacekeepers in the young nation threatening to slide into civil war.

• 25 декабря 2013, 16:56