Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung amassed tens of millions of dollars in unexplained deposits, prosecutors said Friday after a Hong Kong court rejected an attempt to have his money-laundering case thrown out. Opening the case against Yeung, prosecutor John Reading said around HK$720 million ($93 million) passed through accounts connected to the 53-year-old over a seven-year period, much of it from "unknown parties without any apparent reason".

The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo appeared in public on Tuesday after years of house arrest to attend the trial of her brother, his lawyer said. Liu Hui went on trial in Beijing on a fraud charge connected to a real-estate deal on Tuesday, his attorney Mo Shaoping said. Liu Xia, who is Liu Hui's sister and Liu Xiaobo's wife, attended the hearing in what appeared to be her first trip outside her home in Beijing since being placed under house arrest after her husband was awarded the Nobel prize in 2011. She has not been formally charged with any crime.

Wu Yong sobs as fellow villagers carry away his teenage boy's coffin, after a terrifying tremor in the mountains of southwest China robbed him of the only son he is likely ever to have. "I saw my son but I couldn't save him," the 42-year-old said, recalling the moment he rushed from the living room to his boy's bedroom to discover him buried under rubble. "I called him and he answered two times... but I couldn't save him," Wu added, his house totally caved in, as friends tried to comfort him.

Reformist Chinese leader Hu Yaobang, whose death led to the 1989 Tiananmen protests, was offered rare praise by a newspaper run by the ruling Communist Party on Monday, the anniversary of his demise. Hu, general secretary of the party when Deng Xiaoping was China's paramount leader, remains a sensitive figure because of his link to the democracy demonstrations, which authorities quashed with military force and suppress mention of even today. He was dismissed in 1987 after allowing students in Beijing to hold initial protests, and new rallies erupted after his death.