British academics recently launched the country's biggest ever study into the impact of same-sex marriage on long-standing wedding traditions.
The prefecture of Rio de Janeiro has launched a tender for a 52 million-real (about 21.8 million U.S. dollars) revamp of the city's 2016 Olympic athletics stadium.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will "play its due role as a host to all guests" when answering a question on the possibility of a China-Japan leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.
Austrian steel-based technology company voestalpine AG announced Wednesday it has decided to invest about 180 million U.S. dollars to build a new plant in China.
Russia is ready to cooperate with Ukraine's new parliament in the interests of both states and peoples, a top legislator said Wednesday.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee published the full text of last weeks' decision on the rule of law on Tuesday, along with an explanation by President Xi Jinping.
President Xi Jinping has warned of serious problems in China's judicial system and promised to deal with judicial injustice in a document published in Beijing on Tuesday.
Work began on China's national maritime museum on Tuesday in the northern port city of Tianjin.
Twelve Kenyans returning from Liberia Tuesday night will be screened for Ebola virus and placed in a temporary quarantine for monitoring by health workers, said a government official.
A new 97-mln-pound (157 million U.S. dollars) supercomputer will be built in Britain to predict disruptive weather events more effectively, the Met Office has announced on Tuesday.
Russian companies will modernize railway network and build new railroads in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the next 20 years, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced the upcoming parliamentary elections in the self- proclaimed "people's republics" in eastern regions, calling them " illegitimate."
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said he wished to further boost relations between his country and China in an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Monday before his China visit.
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. has developed technology that can write data onto high heat- and radiation- resistant fused silica glass that is capable of storing data for up to 300 million years, local media reported Monday.
The World Bank has proved an additional credit of 75 million U.S. dollars to improve the livelihoods and resilience of pastoralists in the Horn of Africa.
The G20 cultural festival in Australian city of Brisbane kicked off on Friday featuring a spectacular laser light and projection show.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin and Southeast Asian diplomats will gather in Bangkok late this month to discuss the formulation of a Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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