CULTURE AND SPORT

Over 40 people were injured after a disgruntled former employee ignited a petrol bomb at a bank in a region of northwest China.

Nick Watney reversed his recent fortunes to seize The Players Championship first-round lead, but there was more bad luck for Tiger Woods.

Global consumption of natural resources could almost triple to 140 billion tonnes a year by 2050 unless nations take drastic steps.

Army and emergency workers pitched tents and handed out food to evacuees after a quake smashed through Spanish city.

Japan's top drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical has reached a USD12 billion deal to buy Swiss drugmaker Nycomed, a report said.

Toyota will be able to boost its US production sooner than expected following a devastating Japanese quake and tsunami.

Vietnamese players won one gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the 2011 Asian Individual Chess Championships held in Iran.

Around a third of the food produced in the world every year, equal to around 1.3 billion tonnes, gets lost or wasted, FAO says.

The Cannes film festival got off to a glittering start on Wednesday, paying hommage to the creator of "Last Tango in Paris".

A magnitude 5.1 quake killed at least eight people in southern Spain, sending historic buildings crashing down.

Syrian security forces and unidentified gunmen killed at least 19 civilians on Wednesday.

Al-Qaeda's supremo in Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, has warned Americans of a bloodier jihadist struggle to come following the terror mastermind's killing by US commandos.

NATO has insisted its bombing blitz in Libya is not aimed at Moamer Kadhafi.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is expected to book losses of over USD12 billion due to the crisis at its tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.

Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan has won the Asian Model Search in Singapore, beating 100 other top models around Asia to the crown.

Amid tensions between the United States and Pakistan, a top US senator said he will visit Islamabad seeking to mend ties.

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United States and China inked a broad economic framework Tuesday.

A team of seven Japanese film makers started work on a 3D documentary on the world's largest cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.