A car bomb targeted the French embassy in the Libyan capital early on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and a Libyan teenager in an attack that President Francois Hollande denounced as an assault not only against France but all countries engaged in the fight against terrorism.

A day after angry protestors hit streets over alleged rape of 9-year-old girl in Assam, the preliminary medical report on Tuesday failed to confirm any sexual assault on the minor.

The dreaded attacks on school children returned to haunt China again as 22 primary students and a villager were injured on Friday in a knife attack at the gate of a school in China's central Henan Province.

Sixteen people were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion near the office of Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday morning.

Nine women, including five children, were allegedly axed to death by a mentally-ill man in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Balrampur district on Thursday.

Seven persons were killed and 33 others injured, 10 of them seriously, when the vehicle in which they were travelling hit a lamp post and overturned in Bankura district on Sunday, police said.

Sixteen passengers were killed on Wednesday and 19 others injured when their bus fell into a ditch at Chakrata area near here.

Twelve people, including three women and as many children, were killed when a luxury bus was hit by a truck coming from the opposite direction near Kosamba in Surat district, police said.

The death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province climbed to nearly 200 on Sunday with over 10,000 injured in the disaster, as rescue operations were carried out on a war footing.

Nine persons were killed and 15 others injured on Saturday when a powerful blast ripped through a minibus on the outskirts of Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, police officials said.