Australia

Tourist clung to Ghan train for two hours

A young American tourist has survived a terrifying train ride in which he clung to the outside of the legendary Ghan in the freezing dark as it hit speeds up to 110km/h in the South Australian Outback

Malaysia

US tourist warded in Penang for fever

PENANG - An American tourist who arrived at the Penang International Airport on Saturday was taken to the Penang Hospital after he had high fever.

Egypt

Egypt's prosecutor orders to detain attacker of US tourist in Cairo

CAIRO - The Egyptian prosecution ordered on Saturday to detain an Egyptian who attacked a U.S. tourist on Friday near the site of a bombing attack a few days ago that killed a French tourist.

China

An American tourist is murdered, and conspiracy theories abound

What would make you stab a 62-year-old tourist to death in the middle of the day and then leap off a 150-foot tower? That's a question you can't help puzzling over if you're in Beijing.

Israel

US tourist dies in Ein Gedi flood

A US citizen was killed Monday afternoon in one of the fiercest floods Ein Gedi had seen for years, police and rescue officials said.

The man's girlfriend, who had been missing and feared dead, was later found alive by rescue services.

China

Wild elephants attack in SW China, injure American tourist

KUNMING - An American tourist was seriously injured after he was apparently attacked by wild Asian elephants roaming in a nature reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Thursday, officials confirmed on Sunday.

Japan

U.S. tourist in Tokyo struck, killed by taxi

(eTN) - An American tourist died after being hit by a taxi while crossing a road in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, early Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after he had arrived in the country, police said.