YANGON, Myanmar - The Chinese embassy in Yangon confirmed late on Wednesday that three Chinese nationals were injured after a passenger plane of Biman Bangladesh airlines skidded off the runway at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, or YIA.
The White House announced on Wednesday that the United States is imposing sanctions targeting the iron, steel, aluminum and copper sectors of Iran, in a new bid to mount pressure on the Islamic republic, Xinhua News Agency reported.
A total of 81 people were arrested in Ghana on Wednesday for allegedly supporting the declaration of the country's eastern region as an independent country.
Pyongyang fired a number of unidentified projectiles on Thursday afternoon, after a US envoy visited Seoul for discussions on breaking the nuclear deadlock, according to the Republic of Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Millions of South Africans headed to polling stations on Wednesday to elect a new National Assembly and provincial legislatures, a process that will determine the next president.
TABUR, Pakistan - The engine is from a road cutter, the wings are burlap, the wheels are borrowed from a rickshaw: A popcorn seller has caught the attention of the Pakistan Air Force by building his own plane.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado - Two high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that marked the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's worst school shootings just weeks ago.
New Zealand's government on Wednesday introduced an ambitious climate change bill that aims to make the nation mostly carbon neutral by 2050 while giving some leeway to farmers, The Associated Press reported.
WASHINGTON - James Bond's shiny silver sports car - with its JB007 rotating license plate - is the first thing visitors see when they step into the new and improved International Spy Museum that opens on Sunday in Washington. After that, it's as if the history of Hollywood's famous private eye vanishes in invisible ink, while the stories of real-life spies and modern-day espionage take center stage.
The US government's latest attempt to address the spike in asylum-seeking families at the southern border has been slammed by rights groups who said it is "another attack" and won't solve the problem.
The spectacular sacking of the defense minister over a leak from a top-secret security meeting has highlighted a debate over Chinese company Huawei's role in the United Kingdom's telecom networks.
Born and brought up in western Kenya's Kisumu County, located on the shore of Lake Victoria, Newton Owino, saw opportunity in an environmental challenge.
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