Police in Karachi have registered a murder case against the owners of a garment factory where a fire killed at least 289 people in the country's worst ever industrial disaster, officers said Thursday.

A case has been filed against Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Arshad and Shahid Bhaila and other members of the management of Ali Enterprises, Mohammad Nawaz Gondal, the head of the local police station, told Agence France Presse.

Deaths linked to the West Nile virus jumped 35 percent in the United States over the past week, amid one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease, officials said Wednesday.

As of Tuesday, a total of 118 fatalities have been blamed on West Nile virus infections since the beginning of the year, up from 87 on September 2, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of cases rose to 2,636 from 1,993 during the same time frame, a 32 percent increase.

A man was charged with terrorism offences in Australia Thursday after a series of raids connected to a Melbourne Islamic center.

Israeli prosecutors have charged six Jewish minors with a hate attack on a Palestinian man in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem last week, the justice ministry confirmed on Thursday.

It said in a statement received by Agence France Presse that the six set upon Ibrahim Abu Taa, a 28-year-old hotel employee from mainly Arab east Jerusalem, late last Wednesday as he and a Jewish workmate drove a female colleague home in the blue-collar Katamon neighborhood after partying at a west Jerusalem club.

The U.S. government has fined a private school for refusing to accept a 13-year-old with HIV, saying it violated a federal anti-discrimination law, the Justice Department said.

The charity-funded school in Pennsylvania said it had "discontinued processing" Abraham Smith's application when it learned he had the virus that causes AIDS, according to a copy of the legal settlement released Wednesday.

A museum scarcely bigger than a Paris flat sheds light on a momentous era for physics, a time of heroic individuals who made extraordinary discoveries but often at hideous risk.

Within the walls of the former "Radium Institute" in the city's Latin Quarter is the preserved laboratory of Marie Curie, central figure of the greatest dynasty in modern science.

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine paid tribute to British and Commonwealth war dead on Thursday as they wound up a three-day visit to Singapore on a sombre note.

The royal couple, on the first leg of an Asia-Pacific tour celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 60-year reign, laid a wreath at a cemetery dedicated to soldiers who died defending Malaya against the Japanese during World War II.

Actor Dustin Hoffman and rock band Led Zeppelin are among those to be honored by Washington's Kennedy Center later this year, the prestigious performance hall said Wednesday.

Others to be lauded at the December 2 gala include comedian and late night television host David Letterman, blues musician Buddy Guy and Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova.

Two Taiwanese coastguard ships on Thursday set sail for waters near a disputed archipelago in the East China Sea, officials said, amid an ongoing territorial row among Taiwan, China and Japan.

The vessels are expected to get around 37 to 56 kilometers west of the disputed Diaoyu islands to offer round-the-clock protection for Taiwanese fishermen, said a coastguard official.

Vivienne Tam embraced geometrical shapes in a very big way Wednesday for both her spring-summer 2013 collection and her brand-new jewelry line on show at New York fashion week.

Her cutting-edge creations -- think triangles and hexagons -- stood in radical contrast to more feminine looks that have come down the runways over the past seven days.