Death toll in China's blast rises to 15
Beijing: The death toll from a huge factory blast in China's Yima city has risen to 15 with as many people seriously injured, a media report said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday when a huge explosion rocked a gas plant in the central Chinese city.
Turkey steps up drilling around Cyprus
Nicosia: Turkey's vice president says his country is stepping up a search for hydrocarbons off ethnically divided Cyprus with the dispatching of a survey vessel to join two drillships and another research craft operating in waters around the east Mediterranean island nation.