Being listed at the 16th of China's wealthiest persons this year by Forbes, Jack Ma, China's e-commerce king said to young entrepreneurs at a forum on Sunday that successful business should profit by helping people and serving their needs.
A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his alleged role in using weapons of mass destruction at the Boston Marathon to kill three individuals and maim or seriously injure many others, as well as for using a firearm to intentionally kill Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Police officer Sean Collier, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Kevin Rudd swore in as prime minister of Australia on Thursday following his victory in a ruling Labor party caucus ballot the evening before.
"As a photographer or videographer, I'm not better than my colleagues who do only one that job, but I know if I'm put into the environment, I can provide everything to the audience on my own," said Kevin Sites, also known as the "granddaddy of backpack journalists", for his versatility in writing, video and photo taking and online transmission in warzones by himself.
Minutes after the jet bridge of a Moscow-Havana flight disembarked on Monday, journalists dashing to seat 17A got disappointed as Edward Snowden, the U.S. intelligence whistleblower, was not there.
Abe picked up on one of the key economic philosophies of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at a speech in the heart of London's financial district Wednesday night.
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived here on an official visit on Wednesday for the first time in decades to meet with Iraqi leaders, the Iraqi foreign minister said.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas formally handed in his resignation to President Milos Zeman on Monday in the wake of a corruption scandal that has engulfed his government.
A local commentator said on Friday that NSA leaker Edward Snowden did make careful planning before coming over to Hong Kong.
Iran's conservative presidential candidate Saeed Jalili said Wednesday that "resistance" against the enemies' pressure over the country's nuclear issue is the " most realistic approach."
Shanghai, where a local once felt superior to the outsiders just because of their peculiar dialect, is now trying to prevent its own voice from extinction.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that his government will not give up the Istanbul Gezi Park redevelopment project, which had sparked weeklong nationwide protests.
Less than one month away from graduation, Jiang Zhiquan, a postgraduate student in Nanjing, capital city of east Jiangsu Province, grows anxious day by day as he still hunts for a job.
Rushing 10 kilometers in 10 minutes on a motorbike, Li Yanping did not get to see his daughter who died in a poultry plant fire on Monday, which has killed 119 people.
At the age of 88, Li Lishui still remembers every detail of his heroic assistance to an Allied prisoner of war (POW) held almost seven decades ago at a Japanese internment camp in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the police can take DNA samples from people under arrest without a warrant.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday embarked on a five-day visit to Japan and Thailand, saying that the tour is aimed at giving a new dimension to India's "Look East" policy.
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