A crew member from the German NGO migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 distributes life jackets to migrants during a rescue operation in waters off the coast of Tunisia. /Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic went to space (or the vicinity of space) in a PR-suffused event over the weekend. It was all rather twee, packed with maudlin riffs about childhood dreams and r
Museums for teapots, tunnels for turtles, and alcohol for mice might seem like things straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Unfortunately for taxpayers' pocketbooks, the
Andrei Kazimirov left Belarus for Russia last September to sit out a crackdown on anti-government protests after he was detained over a rally in August and beaten while
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London, Britain, March 24, 2021. /Reuters Britain will build what it is calling a new "national flagship" vessel to host trade e
The first China International Consumer Products Expo kicks off in Haikou, the capital of south China's Hainan Province, May 6, 2021. /CFP Editor's note: Dr. John Gong is a professor at the Uni
A yacht capsized on Sunday morning in Nam Ngum Lake near the Lao capital Vientiane, with casualties feared including former Lao President Choummaly Sayasone, local media reported.
01:51 A French sailor has claimed victory in the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe round-the-world solo yacht race.Yannick Bestaven, 48, took home the title onboard the Maitre Coq IV y
Egyptian artist Ahmed Hassan shows a miniature of London's Tower Bridge made of matchsticks in Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) At his home in the main street leading to th
The only thing more rare than a unicorn is an exited unicorn.At TechCrunch, we cover a lot of startup financings, but we rarely get the opportunity to cover exits. This week was an exception though, a
Mr Trump's former chief strategist says his remarks about beheading FBI director and COVID-19 expert were "meant metaphorically".
Sanya, Hainan Province, south China. /VCG South China's Hainan Province on Sunday started construction on a new batch of 151 projects, which are meant to advance the free trade port program.Wi
Long story short, I borrowed a new Bentley Bentayga for 24 hours. What follows is a brief overview of the $177,000 sport utility vehicle. As I had the vehicle for a short time, I was unable to dive de
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted Tuesday of crimes involving the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund that brought down his g
A scene from the drama 24 Hours highlights rescue efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tianjin.[Photo provided to China Daily] An anti-epidemic drama called 24 Hours by the Tianjin Northern
File photo of Xu Jingkun. /Bandao.cn China's one-arm sailor, Xu Jingkun, arrived in The Azores, Portugal on June 4, completing his three-year round-the-world journey, setting a Chinese record
Yunxiu Lu (L) of China participates in the Women's RS:X Class in a Sailing Tokyo 2020 test event at Enoshima Yacht Harbour in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, August 21, 2019. /VCG China's sailing a