The impeachment trial of South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye got under way Thursday, with her lawyers arguing there is no evidence to back the corruption allegations that threaten to force her from office. Parliament voted to impeach Park last month...
Branding and earmarking cattle for ownership and identification purposes are not new practices in the farming world, but now the Indian government has taken a step further by giving millions of cows an identity card. Each cow or bull will...
An official in Panzhihua, Sichuan province, killed himself on Wednesday morning after shooting two of the city's top officials, local authorities said. Chen Zhongshu, the city's land and resources chief, broke into a meeting room at the local conference and...
A booming industry Zhou Wu (not his real name) rolls up his sleeve to reveal a scar on his right arm, a reminder of an accident in which he hit the curb and was thrown off his scooter to avoid...
Tokyo - Japan's self-styled "Tuna King" has done it again - paying more than US$600,000 for a single fish. Sushi entrepreneur Kiyoshi Kimura paid top price at the first auction of the new year at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on...
A dust screen measuring 23-meters in height and 2,900-meters in length is being built at Qinhuangdao Port in North China's Hebei province on Dec 27, 2016. The dust screen will connect with the 5,000-meter-long dust screen already in place to...
The 15-year-old girl who ended up comatose after she was struck in the head by a bullet on New Year's Eve in Malabon City has passed away. Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial announced that Emilyn Villanueva suffered cardiac arrest and was...
KIDAPAWAN CITY - All was quiet at the North Cotabato District Jail here and the inmates appeared asleep. In fact, they were anticipating a daring predawn raid on Wednesday to rescue members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), according...
A husband in Japan went for 20 years without speaking to his wife because he was jealous of the attention she paid to their children, according to reports. Eventually, the couple's desperate 18-year-old son wrote to a Hokkaido TV show...
HONG KONG - Morning commuters in Hong Kong were startled by a man who posed with a knife and took selfies while taking the subway on Wednesday (Jan 4), Apple Daily reported. Police received reports that the man was at...
