A gas explosion in a coalmine in China left 15 miners dead.
All 37 sailors on board a cargo ship are missing after the vessel sank late Thursday night after striking a reef on the sea near Dongjia island in east China, official sources said.
Doctors at the hospital conducted 507 liver transplants and helped other hospital workers in completing 300 similar operations last year, accounting for one-third of the operations conducted nationwide, the Xinhua news agency reported.
"Our relationship is so big that it is no longer a bilateral relationship. It has global dimensions," the report quoted Jaishankar as saying.
Five people were killed and several wounded in the shootout Monday.
Last year, the researchers had developed the world's best single photon source based on semiconductor quantum dots.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have directed southern China's Guangdong provincial government to make all out efforts to rescue 102 miners who remain trapped in a flooded coal mine.\n\n
the coal mine, in a disused tunnel, started to spontaneously combust when 13 miners were reinforcing it. The leaked gas lit and caused an explosion.\n
Deadly attacks continued throughout the country as campaigning began officially Wednesday.
Asserting that it desired peace with India as it wanted to focus on development, Pakistan said it was prepared to show 'flexibility' in resolving the Kashmir issue if New Delhi did the same.
The landslide, around 0030 IST, destroyed 25 houses, in which an estimated 108 people were sleeping.
A similar blast had devastated a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi province on Sunday, which killed 166 miners and injured over 40.
The appointment of John Scarlett, who authored the disputed Iraqi weapons dossier, as the new head of MI6 has sparked off a political controversy.
Police have bust a major illegal emigration racket by capturing a snakehead, or human smuggler, taking people out of China.
The idea of owning a private jet seems to have caught the attention of China's growing number of rich people.
US envoy Joseph Di Trani and the Department's Korean Affairs office head James Foster met with North Korean officials in New York last Friday, but with no apparent outcome.
The ruling was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Changsha City, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Xinhua news agency reported.
Hail and rainstorm killed 160 people in 11 provincial regions, mainly along the mighty Yangtze River and its distributaries, and have left 28 missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The zookeepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner.
A major Chinese telecom firm has won an over $5 million contract in post-war Iraq, despite facing "some resistance" from the US-led provincial authority, the state media reported on Tuesday.
Officials say the move would simplify an irregular process and some estimates say it could quickly reduce the number of executions by 30 percent.
The Athens Games champion can do better than 12.91 seconds, says his coach.
The dump near Batujbar village in Indonesia's Bandung district collapsed due to the heavy rains, burying the entire village in thousands of tons of stinking garbage.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
'Four vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices detonated in the Iraqi capital in the span of 90 minutes this morning,' the US military said. 'Initial reports indicate 26 people died in the blasts, with at least 21 more wounded.'
The number, 88888, for the internet messenger QQ, is being auctioned on a domestic Web site with bidding reaching 112,000 Yuan ($13,532) on Wednesday and still rising.
China has carried out a national campaign to crack down on phone sex services starting from July 2004.
China's coalmines are the world's deadliest, with explosions, floods and fires killing thousands of workers each year. Inadequate safety equipment and lax safety rules are often blamed for the accidents.
"One World, One Dream" is the new slogan for the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
A majority of the alien labor management committee members had agreed to prohibit pregnant foreigners from working in Thailand.
A man armed with a knife broke into the school at killed 8 sleeping children and injured four others before escaping.
The telephonic talk between Modi and Xi came a day after Modi congratulated Xi on Chinese social media.
