Shares in Chinese online retail giant Alibaba soared almost eight percent on their Hong Kong debut Tuesday, after raising at least $11 billion in the city's biggest IPO in nearly a decade.
Police plan to refer two men to prosecutors soon on suspicion of smuggling two rare perentie lizards into Japan and selling them to customers, investigative sources said Monday.
Robbers made off with priceless 18th century jewellery from a state museum in Dresden on Monday, police and museum directors said, in a major art heist that has shocked Germany.
Nine Taliban militants were killed in two separate airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force in eastern Laghman province, the command of Afghan special forces said Tuesday.
Bolivia slowly resumed normal activities on Monday, with schools and businesses reopening after weeks of disruptive protests, as the country prepares for new elections without ex-president Evo Morales.
Like many other nine-year-olds, Laurent Simons likes TV and his pet dog. But he also wants to make artificial organs, and is about to get the qualifications to set him on his way.
