A geography teacher from northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has shot to fame for being able to draw a complete map of the world on a blackboard in just four minutes.
China's demand growth for oil will slow down around 2030, although it will overtake the United States as the largest oil consumer by that time, said International Energy Agency (IEA) Wednesday.
Describing the U.S.-China relationship as "the most consequential" in the world, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called for greater cooperation between the two powers on tackling major challenges facing today's world.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday the upcoming G20 Summit in Brisbane will focus on achieving economic growth.
The first World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence highlighted the tasks and challenges facing new media in covering global hot issues, said Laura Lesevre, responsible for a war-reportage crowd-funding project of the Italian website ilGiornale.it.
Winners of the World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence 2014 were announced on Monday including reports on Myanmar and spree killings in America.
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Wednesday that his country will donate 50 million U.S. dollars in the next five years to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Timely data and better measurement are vital to achieve the World Bank's twin goals of ending poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity, said a report released by the World Bank on Thursday.
The 17th Incheon Asian Games concluded all the competition with 14 world records broken 17 times and six doping cases detected prior to the closing ceremony Saturday evening.
The balance of world power allegedly shifted on Monday, as Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet claimed China had surpassed the United States as the world's largest economy.
Turkey's president has urged the international community to escalate attacks against the Islamic State (IS) militant group, warning that the armed group could expand its reach beyond Iraq and Syria.
As world leaders gather this week in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), U.S. President Barack Obama is stepping up his efforts to build a wide coalition to dismantle what he calls the " network of death."
As world leaders gather in New York City on Tuesday for an United Nations Climate Summit, some Western powers have once again rushed to push China into the limelight, hyping up its status as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter.
Alibaba's IPO could well be the end of U.S. dominance in the world technology sector, a professor from a Britain's business school told Xinhua on Thursday.
The world's population is unlikely to stabilize this century but instead keeps growing and could reach 11 billion by 2100, a new study using modern statistical tools said Thursday.
The annual Color Run kicked off again in Vancouver Saturday, with thousands of people running five kilometers to finish the race among cheers and colorful powder.
Samsung Group will build a factory here to make electronic household utensils at the Saigon High-tech Park (SHTP) with a total investment of 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, local online Thanh nien (Youth) newspaper reported Friday.
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