CHINA-RIGHTS LAWYERS — China's state media is slamming a group of detained lawyers as rabble-rousers while the authoritarian government wages an unprecedented crackdown on human rights attorneys by detaining dozens of them and accusing them of illegal activism. 

CHINA-UIGHURS KILLED — Police in northeastern China say they fatally shot three minority Muslim Uighurs, calling them terrorists who were using knives to resist arrest. 

SKOREA-PROFESSOR-HUMAN FECES — South Korean police detain a university design professor for allegedly forcing a former student to eat human feces and subjecting him to other cruel acts. 

INDIA-FESTIVAL STAMPEDE — A government official says at least four people have been killed and 10 others injured in a stampede during a Hindu religious bathing festival in southern India. 

NKOREA-DETAINED STUDENT — A South Korean student from New York University who is being detained in North Korea says he hopes to be released soon and has told his family not to worry too much about him. 

KOREAS-TENSION — South Korea says it has sent back two North Korean fishermen who were rescued earlier this month from South Korean waters.