A new anti-pornography law is up for debate in Uganda. It would impose bans on what can be shown on TV and in the movies in the African nation.

A spell of snow swept across some parts of central and southwest China during the QingMing Festival which began Thursday.

India successfully tests its nuclear-capable Agni II missile for the second time on Sunday (April 07), from eastern Odisha state, after testing it for the first time in 2010.

China can control the outbreak of an avian flu strain newly contracted by humans, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday (April 7), a day after China reported its eighteenth case of the H7N9 virus that has so far killed six people.

Secretary of State John Kerry is mourning the first death of an American diplomat on the job since last year's Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.

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Four die in China as a result of a new strain of bird flu.

Australian police have confiscated more than 300,000 U.S. dollars' worth of cannabis near the New South Wales town of Coffs Harbor on Thursday (April 4).

Italian police have found gold ingots worth 4.5 million euros ($5.8 million) hidden in a car headed to Switzerland on what appeared "an ordinary Easter day out with the family".

The Tobu Zoo in Saitama, Japan, north-west of Tokyo welcomed its first ever brood of white tiger cubs on March 16th.

Snow on the ground was as thick as ten centimeters (almost 4 inches) in Khorgos, China Tuesday. The temperature also dropped to minus two degree Celsius (about 28 degrees Fahrenheit).

Heavy rains along with gusts of wind hit the capital of Phnom Penh and various provinces across the Cambodia, reported the national Ministry of Meteorology.

A 40-story skyscraper in Russia's Grozny in caught fire on Wednesday (April 3), burning a building where French actor and tax exile Gerard Depardieu reportedly owned an apartment.

Four more people in China have fallen ill from a strain of avian flu not previously detected in humans, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported, as authorities ramped up efforts to monitor the virus.

The North Korean army is warning Washington that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.

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Seoul says North Korea is refusing to allow South Korean workers to enter a jointly-run factory park just across the border in North Korea.

Some adults could benefit from having their tonsils out.

British police have released security camera footage of the moment thieves exploded a cash machine at a petrol station forecourt in the early hours of Sunday (March 31) morning.

Torrential rains killed five people in Buenos Aires on Tuesday (April 2) while flooding left city streets at a standstill.

As Thailand sizzles into high summer there's been some relief from the heat for the animals at Bangkok's zoo.

Seoul says North Korea is refusing to allow South Korean workers to enter a jointly-run factory park just across the border in North Korea.