A solo exhibition by Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guoqiang has opened at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy.

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday, which brought down houses and triggered a tsunami. Waves up to three metres high (10ft) smashed into the city of Palu after the quake struck, collapsing buildings and washing a ship ashore.

A 69-year-old double amputee climber from China flew on a helicopter from Everest to Kathmandu on Wednesday, two days after climbing the world’s highest mountain.

A three-year-old boy showed off his drifting skills in southern China’s Sichuan province, with his younger sister sat behind him.

Authorities released surveillance footage of what happened outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on the day a student opened fire and killed 17 people.

When emergency calls began pouring in from parents and students during the Florida high school massacre, 911 operators at first tried to grasp the enormity of the emergency, and then sought to calm the callers while gathering information to assist arriving law enforcement officers.

More than a hundred people came to the rescue of a lorry driver when his vehicle slid into a river in eastern China.

A tourist attraction in China let female visitors in for free on International Women’s Day. It was eventually forced to close due to huge crowds.

SpaceX has launched the world’s most powerful rocket. The Falcon Heavy blasted off from the same Florida launch pad that NASA used nearly 50 years ago to send men to the moon. 

Three ostriches recently ran amok on a busy road in southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Security cameras showed several people unsuccessfully trying to catch the fast-moving birds.

A man in China got his head stuck in between the bars of his jail cell.

A passerby came to the aid of a pregnant woman trapped in a burning flat in central China’s Henan province.

Golden Lampstand Church, a well-known Christian church, was demolished in northern China’s Shanxi Province.

This woman refuses to leave this train because her husband hasn't arrived. She uses her body to block the doors of the train car. 

A businessman in China used about US$11,000 in small change to buy a BMW.  He had been saving the coins for years, and decided this was the best way to spend the money. The car showroom spent 10 hours counting the coins.

One person died and 12 more were hurt in Iceland on Wednesday after a bus carrying Chinese tourists skidded off the road after colliding with a car.

US President Donald Trump received the royal treatment upon his arrival in Beijing as Chinese President Xi Jinping took him to the Forbidden City to get a taste oftraditional Chinese entertainment - opera.

Watch base jumper Maurizio Di Palma complete eight somersaults as he descends alongside a dangerous mountain cliff in Italy.

Parents fought with each other at a shopping mall playground after their children scrambled for toys in Shenzhen, China, according to local media. One person suffered minor injuries.

The UN Security Council unanimously imposes new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test.

Protesters clash with thousands of police at a South Korean village as components of a controversial system to guard against North Korean missiles are deployed.

The US Navy says 10 of its sailors are missing and five are injured after a pre-dawn accident between the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain and a tanker on Monday.

Authorities in Ecuador have detained the Chinese crew of a fishing boat suspected of catching endangered sharks in the Galapagos Islands.

US President Donald Trump has intensified his rhetoric against North Korea following his threat earlier this week to hit the Northeast Asian nation with ‘fire and fury’. That comment sparked widespread concern about the possibility of a military strike – but he now says it ‘wasn’t tough enough’.

Chloe Ayling's ordeal sounds like a tale spawned by nightmares of the evil that lurks online.

Thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday night to pay tribute to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China, died on July 13 after suffering from liver cancer.

A fire broke out around midnight on Sunday in London's famous Camden Market.  Eight fire engines and about 70 firefighters were sent to battle the fire.

China’s first aircraft carrier has docked in Hong Kong for a PR visit, the 60,900-tonne Liaoning warship attracting hordes of curious onlookers when it opened its deck up to the public for the first time.

Hong Kong's newly inaugurated Chief Executive Carrie Lam was grilled by pro-democracy lawmakers on universal suffrage and Beijing's intervention in local affairs during her first question-and-answer session in the legislature on Wednesday.

Singapore’s prime minister addressed his escalating family feud in a speech in Parliament on Monday, saying his siblings’ accusations that he had misused government power were “entirely baseless”.  But Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he would not sue his siblings.