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South Korean police have detained a North Korean defector for attempting to cross the heavily-guarded border back to the North on a stolen bus.The man was caught Tuesday on the Unification Bridge

On Monday night, just 20 minutes before closing time, chaos erupted at the Ludu International Shopping Plaza in southwestern Shanghai’s Songjiang district.Police say that a 37-year old man surnamed Lin, went on

On a quiet Sunday evening in November 2005, a journalist in India’s Bihar state received a panicked phone call at home.“The Maoists have attacked the prison. People are being killed! I’m hiding

Three people died and 15 others were injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage inside a Walmart supermarket in Shanghai on Monday night.Chinese police said they arrested a 37-year-old man

A baby hippopotamus is causing a fan frenzy in Thailand.Moo Deng – a name that roughly translates to “bouncy pig” – is a two-month-old female pygmy hippo that is going viral online

A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital of Bangkok.Sixteen children and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 pupils

Torrential rain from Storm Helene has ravaged parts of North Carolina and Tennessee – the latest south-eastern US states to suffer in a disaster that has killed at least 63 people.In North

Israel has launched a series of huge air strikes in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, targeting what it says is Hezbollah’s central headquarters.At least two people have been killed and 76 injured, according to

Lebanon is a country that knows war all too well. And it is not eager for more.It still bears the scars of 15 years of civil war between 1975 and 1990, and

Pope Francis has held a private meeting with victims of clerical sexual abuse during a five-day visit to Portugal. In a statement, the Vatican said the gathering had been held on Wednesday

How do you tell a family who lost someone to genocide that they may have buried the wrong body?That is the extremely delicate challenge facing missing persons organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.They

Drivers have been rescued and schools are shut as floodwaters continue to rise in Birmingham.Edgbaston, Stirchley and Bournville are expected to be hit and fire crews had to pull a driver to

Construction has started on the BBC’s new Birmingham headquarters. The corporation said its “future landmark” home, called The Tea Factory, marked the beginning of a new era for production and creative industries

A £10bn investment in a new artificial intelligence data centre will create about 4,000 jobs, the government has said.The site in Cambois, near Blyth, Northumberland, will become one of Europe’s biggest AI

British nationals stranded in Lebanon under Israeli bombardments are calling for the UK government to send evacuation planes as commercial flights out become very difficult to secure.Dan Harper and his wife and

After the US, the EU and 10 other counties called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the White House went into spin mode trying to build momentum for its proposal.On

Former co-chair criticises party’s ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’. Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister has resigned from the opposition Conservative Party, saying it has moved too far