01:12 The global fight against COVID-19 is on. The search for a vaccine is underway while Western drugs are being used to treat patients with the virus. But traditional Chinese medicin
With no let-up in bombardments in Idlib and Aleppo, a massive aid operation from Turkey into northwest Syria is underway to assist civilians, a UN spokesman said on Th
02:18 Carnival is already underway in Rio de Janeiro with hundreds of city blocks in full swing ahead of the official holiday that runs from Feb 21 to Feb 26.But there is one that brin
China's state-owned pharmaceutical enterprise Sinopharm Group is not only working on developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, but has also stepped up efforts to produce chloroquine phosphat
One person is dead and four others are injured following a nightclub shooting in the northeastern U.S. state of Connecticut early Sunday, local police have said. "Shooting investigation underway at s
A U.S. health official said Friday that the development of vaccine against the coronavirus is going well, with "no glitches." Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Inf
China's State Grid said Friday it will help companies resume production to buffer the impact from the novel coronavirus outbreak. The State Grid Corporation of China w
A high-speed train derailed Thursday morning in north Italy's city of Lodi, killing two people, local media reported.Around 30 people were injured in the accident which occurred at around 5:35 a.m. l
U.S. President Donald Trump said here on Tuesday night in his State of the Union address that his administration is working to end the war in Afghanistan. Speaking to a joint session of Congress in t
Two people were killed in a house collapse Tuesday night in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said. The accident happened at 11:51 p.m. Tuesday in Feng
A total of 26 people were killed in recent attacks in Nigeria's central Plateau State, local police said Monday.Up to 190 houses were damaged or destroyed following the
The Chinese mainland has kept close communication with the World Health Organization (WHO), relevant countries, as well as Chinese Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan region
The 2019-nCoV does not currently have an effective medicine treatment or vaccine, though efforts to develop them are underway.Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) announced Sunday
00:27 Residents of the Spanish holiday resort of Tossa de Mar woke up to ocean foam covering parts of the town after Storm Gloria lashed a number of provinces in the country.Floodwater
A shooting incident in downtown Seattle on Wednesday evening left one person dead and five others injured, according to local police.Medics were providing first aid to the wounded and an investigatio
Customs of Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, seized 25.25 kg of methamphetamine in a drug smuggling case on Dec. 28, 2019, customs authorities sai
At least seven people were killed and eight others were injured in a bus accident on Wednesday near the city of Guelmim in southwestern Morocco, local media reported. The accident involved a bus and