BEIJING - China formally approved key ambassadorial appointments, announced earlier, on Tuesday, but speculation continues over who will represent the nation at Washington.

Beijing - Liu Hongcai, who was earlier in the year appointed as the ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), arrived in Pyongyang last week to take up his duties, according to Foreign Ministry.

Newark, New Jersey - Chinese student Jiang Haisong, who breached security in January at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, was on Tuesday sentenced to 100 hours of community service and slapped with a $500-fine by the Newark City Court.

Four Chinese peacekeepers among those remembered at ceremony

ISLAMABAD - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.

202 victims in blasts at nightclubs popular with Western tourists

PHILADELPHIA - An indictment against a woman from suburban Philadelphia accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an US woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported on Wednesday.

ANKARA - Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan cancelled his trip to the United States in response to the US House of Representatives' adoption of a resolution labelling the incidents of 1915 as "genocide," local Daily News reported on its website this week.