Lhasa opens Tibet's first Beijing 2022 licensed product official store.BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Tibet is opening its first Beijing 2022 licensed product official st
After New Zealand was hailed for its successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no recorded cases for over three months, a cluster of virus infections confirmed
01:04 Besides almost obliterating the stars from our night skies – more than a third of humanity is no longer able to see the Milky Way nowadays – light pollution has become a problem
03:14 For thousands of years, cannabis has been grown for reasons other than drugs.George Washington, the first president of the U.S., grew the plant on his farm to make products such
U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, D.C. /AP Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The a
Chinese President Xi Jinping has on many occasions called for practicing thrift and ending food waste. The following are some highlights of his remarks. -- Efforts sho
Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion, granting the military sweeping po
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the f
Alexander Lukashenko called demonstrators "sheep" under foreign control and vowed not to allow the country "to be torn apart," after widespread protests greeted his vic
At lease one security guard was shot and is in serious condition as hundreds of people swept through several downtown business areas in the U.S. city of Chicago city e
Skillshare CEO Matt Cooper said 2020 has been a year of rapid growth — even before the pandemic forced large swaths of the population to stay home and turn to online learning for entertainment and enr
The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Sunday that the recent so-called U.S. sanctions against some Chinese officials will
Rescue workers look for survivors at the site of a landslide during heavy rains in Idukki, Kerala, India, August 9, 2020. /Reuters At least 43 bodies have been recovered after a massive landsl
Healthcare workers hold a rally outside their hospital for safer working conditions during the pandemic, in Fountain Valley, California, U.S., August 6, 2020. /Reuters Numerous inmates in Texa
A Barclays branch in central London, UK, March 1, 2020. /VCG Barclays Plc is being probed by the United Kingdom's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), over allegation
01:35 From relief-based poverty alleviation drive to development-oriented poverty alleviation program and then to targeted poverty alleviation, China has embarked on a distinctive deve
Cote d' Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara attends the meeting of the political committee of Ivory Coast's ruling RHDP party to select their candidate for October's presidential election in Abidj