More than 90 people have died in a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China, the worst mining disaster in the country since 2009.

Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, the staff there said Saturday.

Gvir, the Israeli national security minister, has long drawn criticism for his hard-line statements and harsh policies against Palestinian prisoners.

The Taiwanese and Chinese coast guards were engaged in a tense standoff for the second day near the strategically located Pratas islands at the top ​of the South China Sea, Taiwan's Coast Guard said on Sunday.

A nine-story building under construction in a city north of the Philippine capital of Manila collapsed before dawn and at least 21 people were missing Sunday morning, authorities said.Rescuers were “hearing voices” in the rubble,

As negotiations over the war in Iran hang by a thread, a notorious Iranian commander sanctioned by the US and wanted by Interpol is helping to craft Tehran’s next moves.

Leo hit out at “unscrupulous people and organizations” behind decades of mafia-linked toxic waste dumping, which has been linked to an increased rate of cancer and other ailments.

Worshippers from around the world have gathered in Islam’s holiest city amid regional conflicts and tightened restrictions. (AP Video: Baraa Anwer and Altaf Qadri)