A piece of a 600-year-old Maori canoe is providing New Zealand researchers with valuable insights into the Polynesian exploration of the Pacific in pre-European times.
A medical helicopter crashed early Saturday several blocks away from a hospital in Wichita Falls in the U.S. state of northern Texas, where it was headed, killing a patient it was transporting from nearby Oklahoma and seriously injuring three other crew members, local media reported.
U.S. President Barack Obama called Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Thursday afternoon to discuss the first Ebola case diagnosed on American soil and pledged full support to prevent the epidemic.
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Several years ago, Shen Hao wrote "Even if journalism died, a countless number of saints would survive," to express his devotion to the profession.
Gazing at an old black-and-white photo of Tiananmen Square in 1979, Jiao Li recalls celebrating the National Day as a child.
Israel and Syria delivered practically the same message Monday during the ongoing General Debate in the UN General Assembly, warning "militant Islam" was seeking to dominate the world.
Tokyo shares ended higher on Monday as sentiment here was lifted by gains on Wall Street last weekend and a weaker yen.
U.S. crude prices recovered Friday as U.S. economic growth for the second quarter was upwardly revised.
Swiss voters rejected a proposal to introduce a single health insurance scheme nationwide in a referendum on Sunday.
Tokyo shares opened higher on Monday, tracing a buoyant overnight performance in the U.S. stocks market which was boosted by an upward revision of U.S. gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2014.
Analysis of rocks from the seafloor off New Zealand has given scientists an insight into how the Earth's tectonic plates have been moving for millions of years and the formation of submarine mineral deposits.
Scientists have renewed hopes that one of the world's rarest whales might return to New Zealand waters after confirming a significant population around the sub- Antarctic Campbell Island.
Forty rioters died in a series of explosions in Luntai County of northwest China's Xinjiang on Sunday, and six civilians, two police officers and two auxiliary policemen were killed, local media reported Thursday.
Shi Yang Shi's ultimate goal sounds both poetic and challenging: he would like to be "a brick in a bridge that connects two cultures, and completes a mosaic."
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Tuesday that European fiscal rules were sufficiently flexible and shouldn't be altered.
The Spanish government has confirmed Rafael Catala Polo as the new Justice Minister following the resignation of Alberto Ruiz Gallardon.
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