WASHINGTON - NORTH Korea's nuclear and missile threats are signs the reclusive regime is craving world attention and acting out like 'unruly teenagers,' US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired on Monday.
NEW DELHI - AN INDIAN court reduced on Monday the jail term of the well-connected son of an arms dealer who killed six people in a 1999 hit-and-run case seen as a test of judicial impartiality in India.
BEIJING - RESIDENTS fled a central Chinese county at the weekend over rumors of a radiation leak at a factory but most had returned by Monday after government assurances it was safe.
The exodus was sparked Friday, when bystanders saw government workers at a factory using robots to examine a cobalt-60 irradiator that had malfunctioned. The irradiator is used mainly for sterilizing pepper powder, flavoring used in instant noodles and garlic.
BEIJING - MORE than 20 people died and hundreds were made homeless as the worst flooding to hit Mongolia in decades wreaked havoc on the landlocked nation, an international aid group said Monday.
Beijing-based International Red Cross spokesman Francis Markus told AFP 23 people had been confirmed killed, citing figures provided by Mongolia's Red Cross Society.
