chinese man executed for hurting 30 in bus fire
Shanghai: An arsonist who injured more than 30 people by setting fire to a bus in the Chinese city of Hangzhou was executed on Thursday, authorities said. The Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, which sentenced Bao laixu to death in February, said in a statement that the punishment was carried out today morning.
probe: french soldiers raped children
Paris: Paris prosecutors are investigating accusations that French soldiers in Central African Republic sexually abused children they were sent to protect.
Sun endorses conflicting parties in UK polls
london: The Rupert Murdoch owned Sun newspaper has endorsed Prime Minister David Cameron-led Conservative party but its Scotland-based sister edition has backed the rival Scottish National Party in the May 7 general election.
terror attack plot in Malaysia: 6 charged
Kuala lumpur: Six men, including two Malaysian Air Force personnel and a Indonesian arms expert, were on Thursday charged with conspiring to plot Islamic State-led terror attacks in the Muslim-majority country.
2 MQM activists trained in India: Pak police
Karachi: A senior Pakistani police official claimed on Thursday that two activists of the MQM arrested here last night were members of Indian intelligence agency RAW and were trained in India.
‘Search of Ukraine MH17 crash site over’
The Hague: Dutch and international investigators have finished recovering human remains and wreckage from the MH17 plane crash site in eastern Ukraine, the mission’s head said on Thursday. All 298 passengers and crew on board the Malaysia Airlines jetliner — the majority of them Dutch — died when it was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year.