When a mother visiting the Milan Expo saw her baby stop crying and easily fall asleep, she wondered whether the Chinese knot that she had just taken in her hands truly can make miracles.
Hillary Clinton on Saturday took to a stage in New York City's Roosevelt Island and officially kicked off her 2016 run for the presidency, calling for a new era of shared prosperity in America.
"Do you imagine what it feels like to live in a constant state of apprehension, where you fear to lose your head with every beheading you witness in a public square," wondered Khadija, a young woman who lives in al-Raqqa in northern Syria, where the Islamic State (IS) militants call it their capital.
Lincoln Chafee, a Republican-turned-Democrat, announced Wednesday afternoon that he was running for the 2016 U.S. presidency.
China's twice Grand Slam winner Li Na gave birth to a baby girl, who is named Alisa, on Wednesday.
One month has passed since the devastating quake struck this beautiful Himalayan nation, stripping thousands of people of their homes with little chance of a quick recovery.
Twenty-two members of U.S. Congress on Thursday urged the country's Attorney General Loretta Lynch to review espionage-related charges brought against a Chinese-American hydrologist and asked her to determine whether race played a factor in the so called "spy case".
"There was a lot of bullying when I was at school, particularly when I was an elementary school student. They used to throw garbage in my face but I had no idea why," 22-year-old Ariana Miyamoto, who has taken the world by storm since becoming the first Afro-Asian to be crowned Miss Universe Japan last month, told APD in an exclusive interview.
On Friday, Liu Yang ordered a luxury cosmetics set on a Turkish online store and sent it to his hometown in Bayannur City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
As dazzling sunshine filtered through a camouflage-like mesh that serves as a makeshift roof for a piece of lawn connecting ward tents, Xu Zhaoxia checked her first-aid kit after visiting patients in her area of responsibility, eager to join a task force to serve quake victims in parts of Kathmandu who are not able to come to the battlefield- style hospital, or simply a combination of tents, with vehicles and shabby bungalows just meters away from the official seat of the Nepalese government-- Singha Durbar, or Lion Palace, which, with visible cracks on its white walls and pillars, had been cordoned off.
While Nepal is desperately coping with the aftermath of the April 25 devastating earthquake with international assistance, Nepalese mothers who have to live in tents with their children in downtown Kathmandu are hoping they could enjoy a normal life as early as possible.
Guo Bingying strikes an urbane and sophisticated pose. Yet the 26-year-old administrative officer at China Wuyi Co., a leading Chinese constructor, has a friendly and humble demeanor that impresses everyone.
Yao Hua's fluency in the English language, impressive resume and emotional intelligence have secured her a lucrative career in one of the leading commercial banks in Kenya.
A senior official with the U.S. Department of State said Wednesday it is "not acceptable" for any staff to conduct official business via private email account as presidential contender Hillary Clinton did during her tenure as head of the department.
The newborn baby girl made her first appearance to the public with the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess outside St. Mary's Hospital on Saturday evening.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is launching an investigation into the case of a Mexican girl who was grabbed by Interpol officers and wrongly sent to the United States to be with a woman who thought she was her daughter.
In 2008 presidential campaign, a fresh face called Barack Obama became Hillary Clinton's nightmare. As we are now heading towards another campaign season, will another Senate newbie called Elizabeth Warren become Mrs. Clinton's nemesis this time?
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