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The former bank employee, who is identified by the pseudonym Chen Yile, was charged on Tuesday with corruption and fraud in the city of Yueqing, eastern China

A terrifying video captured the moment a huge object came crashing off a building in China in the direct path of a mother and her young son as they walked along the pavement

The majority of the victims of the crushing avalanche were Tibetans heading back to their mountain homes ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in China, which are set to begin on Sunday

The Kremlin is acutely aware of its toll of "irretrievable losses" and wants to hide the scale of deaths of mobilised troops from everydays Russians - so has deployed several mobile crematoriums to help Vladimir Putin cover his tracks

Two little dogs guarded an injured puppy in the middle of the road in Shanghai, China, to protect the animal from passing vehicles. It is not clear whether the three dogs were eventually rescued

Five were killed and eight remain missing after an enormous fire broke out at a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city of Panjin in north-eastern China, east of the capital of Beijing

But the child was not even slightly intimated by the beasts sitting just inches away behind the glass, and instead reached his hand out towards the lioness, as this video shows.

The crash, which was filmed and shared widely on social media, has sparked outrage with people accusing the man of deliberately targeting people in Guangzhou, China

The 12-year-old boy, from Chengdu in central China, told doctors he put the thermometer up his penis while masturbating out of "curiosity" and because he "lacked sex education"

A total of 32 villages from 18 countries across the five world regions were recognised by the World Tourism Organisation this year, in countries including Spain, Morocco and Mexico

Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg used a speech to the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise to highlight the threat posed by Beijing as China deepens ties with Moscow