The southern city of Odessa was drawn dramatically into the Ukrainian crisis on 2 May when more than 40 people were killed in a burning building following street fighting.

 All 15 crew members involved in the navigation of the ill-fated South Korean passenger ferry Sewol are now reportedly in custody, facing criminal negligence charges.

 Death toll in South Korea's ferry sinking disaster continued to rise to 171 on Thursday, but those recovered from the sunken ferry grew at a relatively slower pace as search operations were hampered by the unexpectedly swift currents.

 The 5.3-magnitude quake that hit southwest China's Yunnan Province on Saturday morning has affected 71,200 residents, injuring 32 people, local authorities said Sunday.

 The Ebola outbreak that has killed 78 people in Guinea is "unprecedented", a medical charity has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Going to a stream to catch fish, a man discovered a human arm on the ground, next to four pairs of sandals. The police then detected the bodies of five students buried under sand.

VietNamNet Bridge – Piracy off the coast of southernmost Ca Mau Province is endangering local fishermen as authorities struggle to deal with armed raids.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security has proposed that the Supreme People's Procuracy prosecute three men for seeking to swindle members of the public.

 The death toll from the twin bombings that rocked area Tuesday near the Iranian embassy in Beirut rose to 23 killed and 146 others injured, the Lebanese caretaker health minister said.

 Floods triggered by torrential rains in the central region have killed at least 31 people, left two missing and seriously injured three others, disaster officials said on November 17.

 Police seize plant growth stimulants; Two die, one injured in house fire; Three missing in boat accident; Stranded S Korean ship starts to leak oil; 17 injured in Dong Nai car accident; Police nab fake doctor in Bach Mai Hospital

 VietNamNet Bridge – He was innocent, but the 52-year-old Nguyen Thanh Chan was jailed for life for the murder ten years ago of a woman he never committed.

Police in the central province of Ha Tinh have caught Tran Khanh Thuyet from Thach Ha District for illegally producing tiger bone glue on Thursday.

Beef jerky is made from wheat flour not sponge foam, confirmed Nguyen Nhu Tiep, Director of the National Agro-Forestry-Fishery Quality Assurance Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, on November 5.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses in Viet Nam were often the victims or perpetrators of corruption, a workshop on commercial integrity heard in Ha Noi on Oct 30.

A multipurpose patrol boat with number code of CSB 8001 has been handed over to the defence ministry's Marine Police High Command in the northern province of Hai Phong today.

The Lao News Agency (KPL) confirmed on October 16 that all 49 passengers on board were killed in a plane crash.

Cyclonic storm Nari, the 11 th of its kind to hit Vietnam this year, killed at least four people and left five others missing in the central region, the National Committee for Search and Rescue has reported.

 Bombings in Iraq killed 20 people Sunday and brought the year's toll to more than 5,000 dead in a surge in violence that authorities have failed to curb, officials said.

 Vietnam's first-ever justice index was released yesterday, casting light on citizens' feelings towards the country's judicial procedures.