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Authorities have arrested two mortuary workers of a hospital in eastern China believed to be involved in the dumping of bodies of 21 dead babies, according to Chinese state media.
Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun were dismissed and taken away by police on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing Gong Zhenhua, the government spokesman [...]

At least 12 people have been killed and another 18 injured in two bomb blasts in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, two days after a deadly attack on Moscow’s transport network.
The first blast occurred in the town of Kizlyar in the southern province of Dagestan on Wednesday morning, when car bomb near a school was [...]

Serbia’s parliament has passed a landmark resolution offering an apology for the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 – the worst incident of the Bosnian War.
The resolution says Serbia should have done more to prevent the tragedy. It was approved by a narrow majority.
However it stopped short of calling the killings a genocide.
The killing of nearly 8,000 [...]

Part of the ceiling over the palace of the Roman emperor Nero has collapsed in Rome, prompting fresh concerns over the stability of the ancient complex.
The damaged section at the Domus Aurea (House of Gold) complex was about 60 sq m (645 sq ft), officials say. No-one was injured.
Art official Antonello Vodret said it was [...]

A team of scientists in Switzerland have made a “major breakthrough” in understanding how the universe was created billions of years ago.
The Large Hadron Collider, or the “Big Bang” machine, has created history by smashing together particles at the highest energy reading ever recreated in a laboratory.
Tuesday’s experiment at the European Centre for Nuclear Research [...]

An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since June is believed to have defected to the US, ABC News has reported citing unnamed government sources.
Shahram Amiri, a physicist in his early 30s, disappeared after going on a pilgrimage to Mecca last year.
Three months later Iran disclosed the existence of its second uranium enrichment site [...]

A Colombian soldier has been released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebel group after more than 12 years in captivity.
Sergeant Pablo Emilio Moncayo, 32, was handed over to an International Red Cross team that included Piedad Cordoba, a Colombian senator, in the southern jungles of Colombia on Tuesday and flown to the [...]

(Reuters) – Australia’s Macarthur Coal (MCC.AX) rejected a A$3.3 billion ($3 billion) takeover offer from U.S. coal miner Peabody Energy (BTU.N), saying it does not fully value the company and its growth prospects.
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Peabody’s offer at A$13 a share was pitched at a small 7.5 percent premium to Macarthur’s last trade ahead of a halt for [...]

itary divers were struggling in treacherous waters yesterday to enter a sunken naval patrol ship in frantic efforts to search for the 46 missing sailors on the fifth day of the disaster.
A 53-year-old Navy diver died after complaining of breathing difficulties and passing out during the operation to search for the missing sailors. The 1,200-ton [...]

BEIJING (Kyodo) Beijing has notified Tokyo of the imminent execution of a Japanese man sentenced to death for smuggling drugs, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qing Gang said Tuesday.
It will be China’s first execution of a Japanese national since the two nations normalized diplomatic relations in 1972.
The move prompted Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano to say [...]