A city in Hampshire famed for its cathedral was named Saturday as the best place to live in Britain.
Warsaw witnessed Monday hundreds of black-clad women campaigning against a series of issues including mainly a project to alter the existing abortion law. They headed for the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) headquarters to present their demands.
"We all call it 'the Mediterranean death boat,' where you may lose everything, including your life," said Mahmoud, a 46-year-old Syrian refugee who lives in Cairo, noting his wife has reached Europe and is waiting for reunion with him and their children.
Life on Earth is even older than we thought, said Australian scientists on Thursday (Sept 1) as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
Researchers in Australia have found what are believed to be the world's oldest fossils, and along with them, signs that diverse life forms lived on Earth up to 3.7 billion years ago.
Premium income from life insurance products in China has grown fast in recent years with premium income from investment-oriented insurance seeing the biggest growth. While noticing that market vitality has been activated, regulators are also aware of potential risks of some businesses and companies beneath prosperity of the market.
A military court on Monday sentenced Guo Boxiong to life in prison for accepting bribes.
Two Chinese pavilions displayed at the ongoing Venice Architecture Biennale seek to embody lasting ancient Chinese wisdoms in today's urban life, their designers have said.
Life expectancy declined slightly for white Americans in 2014, according to new federal data, a troubling sign that distress among younger and middle-age whites who are dying at ever-higher rates from drug overdoses is lowering average life spans for the white population as a whole.
Locals and tourists wondering what is it like to die and be reborn can try out the death simulator, a two-hour experience at a Chinese amusement park that gives people an idea of what it is like to be cremated.
Obesity has the potential to reduce life expectancy by up to eight years and cut healthy life by 19 years, as a result of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, new research published in the British medical journal The Lancet suggests.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday called a ruling issues by the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary "outrageous".
Statesmen have always been focusing on economic growth and welfare development, but now it is the time for them to pay more attention to people's inner happiness, a Finnish social science professor said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
A Somali pirate will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison for his role in the 2011 hijacking of a sailboat off the coast of Africa that left four Americans dead, local report said Tuesday.
An Egyptian court sentenced one member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), from which ousted President Mohamed Morsi hails, to life in prison over violent acts against the army last month, state-run Ahram website reported Tuesday.
Not many people in China choose to live as monks, but a Buddhist temple's program to recruit short-term monks has generated enormous interest among the country's urban residents.
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