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Palace Museum to open ceramics gallery

After about two years' preparation, the Palace Museum's new ceramics gallery is to open to the public in Beijing on Saturday.The new gallery, in the Hall of Martial Valor (Wuying Dian), on the

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Dozens crushed to death in crowd at Israeli religious festival

Dozens of people were crushed to death in a crowd at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described

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UK's Heathrow Airport Refuses To Allow Additional Flights from 'Red Listed' India After 23 April

Fearing that the double-mutant India strain of coronavirus could be resistant to vaccines, British Health Minister Matt Hancock has announced travel restrictions for pe

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Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict may have been for U.S. society

A sign reading Black Lives Matter on the ground in the bushes near Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 20, 2021. /Getty Editor's note:Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-base

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Minneapolis police face civil probe after Chauvin verdict

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about a jury's verdict in the case against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, at the Department of Justice, in W

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Jury convicts Chauvin on all charges in the death of George Floyd

The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white ex-cop charged in the murder of George Floyd, found Chauvin guilty of all three charges.Chauvin was charged on second-degree unintentional murder, th

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Indianapolis reels from mass shooting at FedEx facility

01:00 Listen to responders and witnesses as they recall the shooting that left eight people dead at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.The FBI says it questioned the shooter last year af

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Chauvin opts not to testify in his trial

People stand on a police cruiser as protesters take to the streets after Brooklyn Center police shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota

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Tensions high in Minneapolis during Chauvin trial, police shooting

02:50 After 38 witnesses, over 11 days, the prosecution rested its case against DerekChauvin​on Tuesday.The former police officer faces murder and manslaughter chargesforthe death of G

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1 dead, 3 injured in shooting at Missouri convenience store

Abstract blurred inside interior of local supermarket corridor path with aisle distribution shelf./Getty Images One person was killed and three others were critically injured Saturday morning

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Golf: Tiger Woods was speeding before crashing SUV, says sheriff

A view of Tiger Woods' damaged vehicle after the crash in Rancho Palos Verdes, U.S., February 23, 2021. /CFP Tiger Woods was travelling more than 40 miles per hour above the speed limit when h

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Netanyahu arrives at court as corruption trial resumes

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday arrived at court in Jerusalem for his corruption trial, which is hearing opening arguments and the first witnesses.The 71-year-old is accused of bribery, fraud

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Turned down by the West – China and Russia look to the Middle East

The first Sino-Russian cross-border highway bridge spanning over Heilongjiang River, between northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and Russia's Far East. /VCG Editor's note: Danil Bochkov is

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Chauvin trial enters fourth day of testimony in Minneapolis

Click arrows to view gallery The fourth day of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota Thursday.Multiple witnesses were

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Firefighter blocked from helping Floyd returns to stand

A Minneapolis firefighter who voiced frustration at being prevented from using her EMT training to help George Floyd will be back on the stand Wednesday in the trial of

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Italian mafia fugitive caught after posting cooking videos on YouTube

00:44 A suspected Italian mafia member has been arrested in Boca Chica, Santo Domingo, after his tattoos were recognized on YouTube cooking videos.Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, had been

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Myanmar protesters launch 'garbage strike' as death toll tops 500

Rubbish piled up on the streets of Myanmar’s main city on Tuesday after activists launched a “garbage strike” to oppose military rule as the toll of pro-democracy prote