Francesca Schiavone became the first ever Italian woman to win a Grand Slam title as the 29-year-old defeated Samantha Stosur from Australia 6-4, 7-6 (2) in the women's singles final at the French Open on Saturday.
A small plane crashed into a commercial building in Suffolk County of the US state of New York on Saturday, injuring at least two people and leaving the building fully engulfed, police said.
Two foreigners were killed and another injured in an aggravated debt dispute Saturday night in the coastal city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province, local police said.
An earthquake measuring 4.6 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Yangqu County of Taiyuan city in northern China's Shanxi Province at 8:58 pm Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
An Islamic Hamas movement official described on Saturday the seizure of an Irish Gaza-bound aid vessel by Israeli troops as "state terrorism."
Southwest and northwest China are to see rain over the next three days with some regions in southwest China's Tibet and Guizhou to be hit by storms, China's Central Meteorological Station said Saturday.
The Iranian troops crossed into the Iraqi Kurdish region two days after another incursion in the mountainous semiautonomous region, a Kurdish security source and Kurdish official website said on Saturday.
A bicycle bomb went off in Kandahar city, south of Afghanistan, killing one policeman and injured 15 others on Saturday, an official said.
Israeli navy has taken control of the Gaza-bound Rachel Corrie aid ship on Saturday noon, and activists aboard are safe, reported Free Gaza Movement. It was not confirmed by Israel Defense Forces spokesperson's office at the moment.
Support for Japan's ruling Democratic Party leaped to 36.1 percent in a poll published by Kyodo news agency on Saturday after the appointment of a new leader in the run-up to an upper house election.
As of 11:28 am on June 5,2010, a total of 10 million visitors had come to the Expo, among which 3.5 million came in groups, according to the Expo's official website.
US-China relations are improving on the back of their need for mutual support after undergoing a rocky period earlier this year, US Congressman Adam Schiff said here Friday.