Vietnam has uncovered a 800-square meter marijuana garden in the country's northern Hung Yen province, 60 kilometers east of Hanoi capital city, local newspaper Young People reported Friday.

The Bangladeshi government plans to introduce Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and Photo Matching System (PMS) to identify criminals, local newspaper The Independent reported Friday.

As housing costs spiral out of reach for working-class families, child poverty is on the rise across Los Angeles County, according to a report released on Thursday.

The four U.S. aid workers seized by their bodyguards escaped from their captors late Thursday night in the southern Philippine island of Sulu, the police said on Friday.

HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Nigeria's prisons has reached 8.2 percent, far higher than the nation's average, Deputy Controller of Prisons of Nigeria Stella Orisakwe said here on Thursday.

China opened 206 methadone clinics between July and September this year bringing the total to 307 in a bid to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS through contaminated needles used by drug addicts, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.

Bronze arms and tools, dating back to the 3rd millennium BC, were discovered in Pir, Satu Mare County, in northern Romania, the national Rompres news agency reported on Thursday.

Nigeria has culled around 700,000 birds since the outbreak of bird flu in February this year, an official from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

Jose Carreras, one of the world's Three Tenors, will sing in Chinese during a Olympics-themed performance on Friday in Xi'an.

146 years after Anglo-French Forces stormed into Beijing's Yuanmingyan and burnt it to the ground, a Chinese private foundation announced Thursday that it would build a replica of the famous royal gardens.