At least 49 people were killed on Saturday when a tour bus plunged 400 meters into a densely wooded ravine in Campo Alegra, in the state of Catarina, southern Brazil, authorities said.
China is cutting the number of industries in which it restricts foreign investment, in a move to further open up the market.
More than half of the high-interest local government debt that falls due this year will be covered under a debt swap plan arranged by the Ministry of Finance, which said on Friday that the swap would not raise the debt level further.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission is scrapping approvals for new exchange-product listings, signaling accelerating efforts to cut administrative red tape before planned reforms of initial public offerings.
Twenty-one international aid groups sharply criticized the United Nations Security Council in a report on Thursday, saying it had failed to implement three resolutions passed last year seeking to boost humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians caught up in the country's civil war.
During the four years that researcher Xi Li has watched Syria's civil war unfold through nighttime satellite imagery, he has seen the pinpricks of light fade to the point where 83 percent of the country's lights have gone out.
Guardians of the French language have dropped their famously fierce blockade against invading English words and are now welcoming them for enriching - rather than threatening - the lexicon.
The new-energy vehicle industry is a new landmark on Chengdu's industrial landscape as the capital city of Sichuan province stresses a range of advanced industries to fuel a new round of economic development.
Two officers were shot during a protest in front of the Ferguson Police Department early on Thursday, authorities said, as demonstrators gathered following the resignation of the embattled police chief of the St. Louis suburb.
Indonesia signaled on Thursday that it was not likely to execute foreigners on death row for at least the next 16 days after the attorney general's office said that a group of 10 convicts would be executed together.
Australia's government said on Thursday it was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of suicide bombers from the Islamic State group that struck Iraq's Anbar province.
Malaysia's transport minister vowed on Thursday to take stern action against an air traffic control supervisor if it is confirmed that he was asleep on the job when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared a year ago.
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