A tropical storm has hit southern China, bringing heavy winds and rain and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights. It is the second storm to hit the area in a week.

A man in Luoyang, China, has been arrested on suspicion of killing two nightclub hostesses and keeping another four women as sex slaves in a basement dungeon, local police said Friday.

A mentally disturbed man with an ax attacked children and parents walking on a city street in central China on Wednesday, killing six, local officials said.

Tropical storm Nock-Ten began bearing down on the southern Chinese rubber-producing island of Hainan on Friday, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, ferries and rail services, state media reported.

A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China's restive Xinjiang region was “a terrorist attack,” a government official said on Tuesday, but an exile Uighur group accused police of firing on peaceful protesters.

More than 460 people have died or gone missing in China since June, after extreme summer weather triggered huge floods and deadly landslides, government authorities said.

Rescuers in southwest China have called off their search for 21 coal miners trapped underground by a flood two weeks ago, saying the workers were “very unlikely to be alive,” state media said Sunday.

More than 2 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in eastern China's Zhejiang province that is also pushing up food prices, state media reported Sunday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks Monday with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on the first leg of a tour of ex-Soviet states which China hopes will result in new energy deals.

Chinese state media says a new round of flooding across central China has killed 33 people and injured more than 100.