Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in India when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding, police said on Thursday.

 Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Cancer Institute published

Professor Nguyen Ba Duc, former director of the National Cancer Hospital K in Hanoi cum deputy head of Vietnam Cancer Association, said at a conference that cancer is one of most common cause of deaths in the world and in Vietnam,

 A 12-year-old boy has been shot dead by police in the US city of Cleveland, after carrying what turned out to be a replica gun in a playground.

 A grandfather shot dead his daughter and her six children before taking his own life at a home in Bell, Florida, police have said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 40-strong pack of wolves thought to be endangered Asiatic wild dogs have come under attack from farmers in northern mountainous Son La Province's Muong Lan Commune trying to protect their livestock.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Four hunters trapped three langurs in the National Park of Phu Quoc (Kien Giang province) and slaughtered the monkeys on the spot. Two were arrested and one escaped.