HONG KONG, April 29 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 286 km SW of Bluff, New Zealand at 13:16:32 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ...

JAKARTA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were confirmed dead and five others seriously injured following a tragic highway accident on Tuesday in Indonesia's West Java province, local police ...

OTTAWA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won Monday's parliamentary elections in Canada, preliminary results from Elections Canada showed.

YANGON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has risen to 3,770 as of April 28, the state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Tuesday. In addition, 5,106 ...

Two people were killed and another injured on Tuesday in an explosion at an industrial facility belonging to a chemical company in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, the official news agency ...

"Antonio Rudiger underwent surgery today for a tear in the outer meniscus of his left knee. The operation was performed by Dr Manuel Leyes under the supervision of Real Madrid's medical services.

Earlier on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Malta's golden passport scheme is in violation of EU law. While accepting that EU member states have the right to lay down the ...

KABUL, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A total of 820 Afghan inmates imprisoned in Pakistan have been set free and returned to their homeland in the past week, official data from the Ministry of Refugees and ...

ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Pakistani army said on Tuesday that three terrorists were killed in an operation in Kech district of the country's southwestern Balochistan province.

The death toll from a huge blast and the subsequent fire at Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan on Saturday has reached 65, with over 1,200 others injured, Iran's ...

JERUSALEM, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers precisely measured ultra-powerful laser pulses that last only a few femtoseconds -- millionths of a billionth of a second, Ben-Gurion University ...

ISTANBUL, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police detained 76 suspects in Istanbul as part of an operation targeting terrorist groups allegedly planning to provoke unrest during May Day demonstrations, ...