More than four in 10 incoming Harvard students are of Asian descent, nearly double the proportion five years ago, following the end of race-conscious admissions.

Berlin's homicide squad has taken over the case of a 13-year-old girl of Vietnamese descent who vanished on her way to school on Tuesday, with investigators now assuming she did not leave home of her own accord.

Two students who made the most public bus trips in Ho Chi Minh City during the first half of October have won iPhone 17 smartphones worth about VND28 million (US$1,090) each.

Vy, a seventh-grader at Kim Lien Secondary School, was studying for her midterm exam when she smelled something burning and was startled to hear her teacher and a security guard shouting: “Fire! Everyone evacuate!”

In this Asian city, efficient trains, buses and urban connectivity set the global standard.