Kat De Guzman | Jan 20, 2015 01:23 AM EST
A five-year-old boy from Britain was invoiced for a "no show" party fee and his family was threatened with court action after he failed to attend a friend's birthday party. read more
Kat De Guzman | Jan 20, 2015 12:43 AM EST
Li Junhua, a man who was identified as the chairman of the board of the Dao Yuan holiday resort in southeast China's Jiangxi Province, has gotten attention from the media because of his close resemblance to the President Xi Jinping. read more
Michael A. Katz | Jan 19, 2015 11:51 AM EST
Every year in China more than 3 million people die prematurely from chronic non-communicable diseases, according to a new report from The World Health Organization, which says that “urgent government action” is needed. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 19, 2015 09:19 AM EST
Buddhist monasteries and Christian churches became the temporary refuge for more than 2,000 residents of the state of Kachin after a fierce battle erupted between government soldiers and members of the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) over the weekend. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 19, 2015 01:53 AM EST
The modern Bonnie-and-Clyde team has been arrested in Florida while sleeping inside a stolen vehicle. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 11:30 PM EST
Instead of being role models to their students, two female California teachers preferred being sex tutors and this has led to their arrest. read more
Dino Lirios | Jan 19, 2015 10:43 AM EST
A new law has been passed that requires Arizona high school students to pass the equivalent of the U.S. citizenship test to achieve their high school diploma. It is set to begin in the 2016-2017 school year. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 08:04 AM EST
The quadruplets born to first-time mother, 36-year-old Erica Morales, are doing well at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 07:57 AM EST
Police are searching for a black man in dark clothes and blue cap riding a 10-speed or racing bike. That man is the suspect in the shooting on Friday night of real estate executive Kameron Segal who was seated inside his Rolls Royce in Hollywood when the incident happened. read more
Desiree Sison | Jan 18, 2015 08:28 AM EST
More than a hundred people gathered to commemorate the 10th death anniversary of China's former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang on Saturday despite strict police surveillance that accompanied the remembrance. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 03:31 AM EST
Interstate 84 in Oregon is now partially open, but only to single-lane traffic after a long stretch of the I-84 was closed almost the whole of Saturday due to a pileup. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 03:19 AM EST
A Hamilton woman took advantage of the exemption given to religious materials to mail a Holy Bible to a male inmate at the Hamilton County Justice Center in Ohio in December to smuggle heroin. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 18, 2015 01:16 AM EST
The New Jersey Police received a call on Friday night that there is a fire in the middle of a road in a residential area in Pemberton Township, located 30 miles east of Philadelphia. Upon responding to the call, the officers discovered it was an infant that was aflame, which the cops immediately put out. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 17, 2015 02:04 PM EST
China's anti-narcotics authorities have cast a wider net with a haul of about 60,000 arrests for drug-related offenses and confiscated nearly a dozen tons of illegal substances in a sweeping, iron-fisted campaign that took more than 3 months. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more