Chinese hackers gained 'full access' to the computer network of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2011, possibly allowing them to delete sensitive files, upload hacking tools, add user accounts to mission-critical systems, and more. more ›

We were just beginning to hope this terrible trend had come to an end. Today around noon a staffer at a temporary daycare facility on Minhang Rd in Shanghai went on a rampage with a box cutter, injuring 8 children. The victims were all 3 and 4-year-olds, and they suffered injuries to mostly their necks and heads. They were rushed to the Fudan University Hopsital for treatment, and several underwent surgery immediately. Only one boy is believed to have received a life-threatening injury. more ›

At approximately 4pm today, a 30-year-old woman died at Changzheng Hospital (长征医院) after being stabbed 10 times at the Culinary Art Leisure Restaurant (厨艺休闲餐厅) attached to the D-Mall underground shopping center (迪美时尚购物中心) in People's Square. The woman's murder reportedly came at the hands of a forty-something male suspected of having romantic relationship disputes with the victim. The suspect was apprehended by police, and was found to have sustained cuts on both hands. Stanchions, rather than crime scene tape, were used to rope off the restaurant after the incident, and graphic images of the woman's body taken from a restaurant window are currently trending on Sina Weibo. more ›

Cities, with their masses of people and unrelenting bustle, become different beasts when the mercury rises every summer. For proto-urban jungle New York, the case has been made and unmade for climbing temperatures also leading to a corresponding spike in violent crime. more ›

Can anyone tell us what these kungfu kids should do when faced with a knife-wielding mad man? Wouldn't it be better to just arm them with guns already?
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According to the following report, a panda has mauled a man at the Beijing zoo. The cause for the violent outburst appears to be stupidity: a man was trying to recover a toy his child dropped in the bear cage. Though there are many that think it's silly to give a child your seat on the subway, jumping into a bear cage has to be considered a major victory for the xiao huangdi camp. more ›

The Chinese Consulate-General in Mumbai is located less than 100 metres away from the Oberoi Hotel, one of the luxury hotels that were bombed by terrorists yesterday, but no casualties have been reported as yet. In what appeared to be a highly coordinated effort supposedly by a little-known Islamic group called the Deccan Mujahideen, teams of heavily-armed gunmen unleashed at least seven attacks across the city, including the landmark Taj Hotel, a popular tourist attraction and a train station, killing at least 100 people and injuring another 200. In an interview with the Legal Evening Post 《法制晚报》, Vice Consul Wang Zhenhua (王振华) has said the consulate-general was "very fortunate" to emerge from the blasts relatively unscathed. Wang was sleeping in the consulate when he heard a huge blast that rattled the building that housed the consulate. Since then the consulate-general has been working nonstop — making and receiving calls related to the safety of Chinese nationals and organisations, liaising with hotels and police departments, and beefing up security at the consulate-general. On hearing that the Oberoi Hotel had been attacked and hostages held there, Wang's top concern was for the general manager and employees of Sinopec's Hong Kong subsidiary which had its office located in the hotel. Fortunately they are all safe and no reports of Chinese casualties or hostages have been made yet. more ›

Two Japanese reporters Shinji Katsuta of Nippon Television Network Corp, and Shinzou Kawakita of the Tokyo Shimbun were briefly apprehended, beaten by police and forcibly taken to a border police facility while they were in Kashgar trying to report on the deadly attack which killed 16 policemen. After a protest by the Japanese government, the Kashgar police and the local foreign affairs department apologised to the Japanese reporters. Austin Ramzy of Time Magazine was also in Kashgar, and reports that he was on the same flight with a man that had lost his lower right leg and was strapped to a stretcher that flight attendants say was one of the border guards injured in the attack. This video, filed by Ramzy, shows the area around the police station where the attack took place. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports that a morning raid on a border patrol police division in Kashi, Xinjiang Province today left 16 armed policemen dead and another 16 injured. Two men smashed two trucks into the police station at around 8am, got out of their vehicles, stabbed several policemen and then ended the attack by throwing grenades at the police. They have since been arrested. [AFP] [Al-Jazeera] [Bloomberg] more ›