Strong quake rattles Indonesia’s Sumatra, no damage reported
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Thursday.(Photo: Reuters) PADANG, Indonesia – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 shook buildings and caused momentary…
Sporadic gunfire heard at Mogadishu hotel day after al-Shabaab attack
Vehicles burn at the scene of a suicide car bombing outside Hotel Ambassador on Maka Al Mukaram Road in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, June 1, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) MOGADISHU –…
Family will not sue Cincinnati zoo over child-gorilla incident
Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her baby outside the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit, two days after a boy tumbled into its moat and officials…
Vietnam welcomes US Senate’s vote to end catfish insection program
Employees work at a catfish processing plant in An Giang Province, located in southern Vietnam. (Photo courtesy: Tuoi Tre) Vietnamese authorities have welcomed the US Senate’s approval of a…
Repatriation ceremony held to remember 33 Australian war casualties
Australian Defence Force personnel carry coffins from a plane that contain the remains of 33 Australian service personnel and dependents at the Royal Australian Air Force base located in Richmond,…
French vessel detects signals from EgyptAir jet black box
Recovered debris of the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in this handout image released May 21, 2016. (Photo: Egyptian Military/Handout via Reuters) CAIRO/PARIS –…
Great white shark trapped and killed following attack on surfer in WA
Ben Gerring is fighting for his life in hospital. (Photo: Facebook) A 4.2-metre great white shark suspected of attacking a surfer while he was surfing in Western Australian has…
Australian police probe alleged match-fixing in NRL
Australia’s Karmichael Hunt (C) looks for a way past New Zealand’s Frank Pritchard (R) watched by Nigel Vagana during the opening match of the Tri Nations Rugby League tournament in…
South China Sea set to dominate Singapore security summit
A member of the Special Operations Command patrols outside the venue of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore May 29, 2015. (Photo: Reuters) SINGAPORE/HONG KONG…
Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh to become country’s first athlete to compete in three straight Olympics
Vietnam’s Olympic badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh takes part in a training session in Hanoi, Vietnam May 31, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has…
