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Anti-China protests leave 21 dead in Vietnam
At least 21 people were killed as anti-China riots in southern Vietnam escalated and spread to the center of the country on ...Unions call for nationwide strike after Turkish mine disaster kills 282
Four Turkish labor unions called for a national one-day strike on Thursday in protest against the country\'s worst industrial disaster that killed ...Pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy
A pregnant Sudanese woman who refused to renounce her Christianity was sentenced to death by hanging Thursday in a Khartoum court, provoking ...9/11 Museum opens in New York
U.S. President Obama commemorated victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at the recently completed museum and memorial in a service Thursday.Israel troops kill 2 Palestinians in Nakba Day clashes
Israeli forces Thursday shot dead two Palestinians during a Nakba Day demonstration in the West Bank, prompting a Palestinian warning of a ...Blast near border crossing point between Syria and Turkey kills 43
At least 43 people have been killed and many others wounded in an explosion in northwestern Syria, near a border crossing with ...French journalist killed in the Central African Republic
The French president\'s office said Tuesday the body of Camille Lepage was found by French peacekeepers in a vehicle they stopped that ...Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...Death toll from Turkish coal mine disaster rises to 238
At least 238 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in ...Oscar-winning Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul dies at 36
Swedish film director Malik Bendjelloul, who directed the 2012 Oscar winning documentary Searching For Sugar Man, has died aged just 36. According ...