Chinese police have arrested a gang suspected of being behind an online network that sold smuggled firearms to gun enthusiasts across the country, it was announced on Friday.

South Africans marked Africa Day on Friday, with events of the first global African Diaspora Summit (ADS), cultural activities and a parliament debate with the theme of "Celebrating African Cultural Renaissance through Dialogue".

With recession and sky-high unemployment, the Syrians officials, while confessing that the European Union (EU) and U.S. sanctions have hit the Syrian people hard, are still sending assurances that the country's economy is stable.

The mutiny by soldiers of the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) at Katchanga area of North-Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) could have resulted into deaths of almost 100 people, a source from the North-Kivu civil society has said.

 suicide bomber attacked a police station in Anatolian Kayseri province in central Turkey on Friday, leaving at least two people killed and 10 others injured, local newspaper Hurriyet Daily News said on its website.

Pakistani lawyers have said they would appeal against the conviction for treason handed to Dr Shakeel Afridi, the physician recruited by the CIA to track down Osama Bin Laden.

Human rights lawyers acting on behalf of a Pakistani student are seeking a judicial review aimed at forcing the Foreign Secretary to say whether there is such a policy, in a case which threatens to expose ministers to allegations of war crimes.

The United States is the leader among the world's developed countries in gun violence and gun deaths, according to a report on the U.S. human rights record released on Friday.

Trains on a major railway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region began running again late on Friday afternoon, after they were disrupted by torrential rain earlier in the day.

The United States declares it has the best health care service in the world, but quite a lot Americans can not enjoy due medication and health care, said a Chinese report on the U.S. human rights record on Friday.