A pack of tigers mauled a man to death and injured his son at a zoo in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Sunday, a zoo official said Monday.
At least five people were killed and 112 others injured in the Kenyan capital Sunday evening after two explosions rocked a campaign rally organized by religious leaders opposed to the proposed new constitution.
At least 10 people drowned Monday and 50 others went missing when a boat capsized in the Ganges river in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, according to local wire services.
A miner was rescued Monday after being trapped for almost 11 days in a flooded coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province, rescuers said.
A bus rented by Iranian medical students plunged into a ravine off a mountain road in the central Philippines, killing 20 people and injuring about 26 others, officials said Monday.
The first plane of a new cross-Strait air route took off from Taipei's Songshan Airport Monday morning, heading towards Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport.
The Boston Celtics used the outside shooting of Paul Pierce and a superior inside game to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 92-86 in the NBA Finals on Sunday and move within one victory of a record 18th championship.
China and Kazakhstan have signed a deal to build and finance a natural gas pipeline and deepen their cooperation on nuclear energy, extending the two countries' ties on resources.
Mobs of rioters slaughtered Uzbeks and burned their homes and businesses in Kyrgyzstan's worst ethnic violence in decades, sending more than 75,000 members of the ethnic minority fleeing the country in attacks that appeared aimed at undermining the Central Asian nation's interim government.
Insurgents wearing military uniforms stormed Iraq's central bank Sunday during an apparent robbery attempt, battling security forces in a three-hour standoff after bombs exploded nearby in a coordinated daylight attack that left as many as 26 people dead.
BP mounted a more aggressive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as it started deploying undersea sensors to better measure the ferocious flow of crude.
Israel is about to form an internal panel with two international observers to probe into the navy's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla some two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister's Office announced Sunday night.