UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
Fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will likely accept asylum in Venezuela to escape prosecution in the United States, Glenn Greenwald, the US journalist who first published the documents he leaked, said on Tuesday.
One has still lost contact in the deadly Asiana airplane crash that killed two middle schools students, said the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, adding that the other 138 Chinese passengers are safe.
The Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco confirmed Tuesday that one Chinese passenger aboard the crash-landed Asiana Airlines remained in critical condition.
Chinese and US officials began talks on Monday as a prelude to the fifth round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, touching on such as cybersecurity.
Security in cyberspace 'still major problem'
Diplomacy is the best policy Cyber Attacks on China
Thousands of mourners, including firefighters from around the country and US Vice-President Joe Biden, converged in central Arizona on Tuesday to pay final tribute to 19 young firemen killed last week in the line of duty.
Thirteen people were confirmed dead and nearly 40 others were still missing in a catastrophe that raised questions about the safety of transporting oil by rail instead of pipeline.
Two flight attendants working in the back of an Asiana Airlines Flight 214 were ejected and survived when the plane slammed into a seawall and lost its tail end during a crash landing at San Francisco's airport.
Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the WikiLeaks said on Tuesday after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then deleted it.
Twelve family members of the two Chinese students who were killed and two others who were injured in Saturday’s Asiana Airlines crash arrived in San Francisco at 11 pm on Monday local time.
A senior official of Asiana Airline said on Monday night on arrival at terminal 1 of San Francisco Airport that he had just flown to SFO on the same plane with Chinese students' family members from Los Angles, and would coordinate and deal with the aftermath of the crash.
Two Chinese teenagers die in crash. More than 180 others injured, 49 seriously in the air crash in San Francisco.
Photos of plane accident
Police in rural Brazil have detained one man and were seeking two others in the slaying of a soccer referee who was killed, dismembered and decapitated by spectators after he stabbed a player to death mid-match, a police official said Monday.
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