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Peru's new president completes cabinet

Peru's newly-elected president Pedro Castillo completed his cabinet, by swearing in former World Bank economist Pedro Francke as his finance minister in late Friday evening.Aníbal Torres was also swo

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Choco bites into $100M Series B, at a $600M valuation, to build a more transparent, sustainable food supply chain

The United States estimates of the food produced here approximately 40% is wasted. Globally, $2.6 trillion annually is lost.Berlin-based Choco, which has built ordering software for restaurants and th

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Earth's 'pulse' to be measured to help understand volcanos and earthquakes

University College London experts hope the project will help them understand more about volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

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Austria Urges EU to Take Action Against Attempts to Use Migrants as Weapons

The European Union must respond to Belarus, Afghanistan and Turkey that attempt to use migrants as a weapon against the bloc, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schall

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The Art of the Party: Force Crossing the Dadu River

02:01 In October 1934, China’s Red Army entered Sichuan Province.​​​​ The soldiers were in the midst of what is known as the “Long March,” the Communist military’s ardu

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Can 'flying' electric boats save Venice from erosion?

00:59 The waves caused by motorboats in the canals of Venice, Italy, are eroding the foundations of ancient buildings.One Swedish company thinks it has found the solution – "flying" el

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'Mozart effect': Listening to composer's piece can prevent epileptic seizures - study

Researchers say listening to Mozart can lead to a decrease in epileptiform discharges, the brain waves that can cause seizures.

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Kenya's COVID-19 death toll tops 3,300 mark

A train station in Nairobi, Kenya. /VCG Kenya's COVID-19 death toll surpassed the 3,300 mark on Monday as the country continues its fight against the pandemic.Health minister Mutahi Kagwe anno

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Breathtaking mirage appears in Xinjiang, NW China

00:48 A spectacular mirage mirroring a lake surface appeared on Tuesday over the vast Kumtag Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.The mirage was

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World Athletics rejects Leeper's bid to compete in Tokyo

American runner Blake Leeper waves to the crowd before the men's 400-meter dash at the U.S. athletics championships in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., July 27, 2019. /AP American runner Blake Leeper h

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Why is rigorous self-supervision important for the CPC?

1-1-5 Why is rigorous self-supervision important for the CPC.mp300:00 Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinping Thought and

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China's frontier anti-drone radars debut World Radar Expo 2021

Exhibits on the site of the 9th World Radar Expo in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 23, 2021. /CFP High-endChinese homemade counter-drone radar technologies are curren

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SpaceX aims for 3rd crew launch hour before Friday's sunrise

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on board sits on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at sunset in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.,

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Listen to the South China Sea – feel the tranquility of Haikou

01:46 Along the coast of Hainan Province, Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, CGTN collected and recorded the natural sounds of the South China Sea

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20 missing after Philippine ship runs aground in typhoon

A search was under way Tuesday for 20 crew members missing in the Philippines after their cargo ship ran aground while seeking shelter from rough waters churned up by a typhoon, the coast guard said.

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At least 44 killed after floods trigger landslide in Indonesia

Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia killed at least 44 people and displaced thousands, a disaster relief agency said Sunday. Several

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Scientists discover new black hole, 'Goldilocks', believed to have formed before the first stars and galaxies

Researchers found the black hole through the detection of a gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst.