Newly sworn-in U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday visited Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time since rioting convulsed the city late April in a bid to help ease tensions.
China is lagging behind other countries in the creation of contemporary works that represent the peak of the country's cultural achievements, according to a leading heritage campaigner.
It has been eight years since Yue Dejian went to see a movie in the cinema.
An explosive device ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese passengers at a gate of the old city of Damascus on Sunday afternoon, killing at least six people and injuring over 20 others, the pro-government Sham FM radio and witnesses said.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday the risk of acts of terrorism from illegal immigration to Italy was high amid reports that several suspected foreign nationals have been expelled from the country in recent days.
Police's searching operation for the two main suspects of Charlie Hebdo attack is finished, suspects still at large, said BFMTV on Thursday night.
Britain's anti-racism organization Stand up to Racism is calling for a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Wednesday against the decision of a grand jury not to indict a police officer for killing an unarmed African American teenager.
Two Norwegian citizens fighting for the Islamic State (IS) have been killed in recent battles in Syria, the local TV channel TV2 reported on Tuesday.
Located in Jinzhong Basin of Shanxi Province, the 2700-year-old Pingyao Ancient Town is one of the most well-preserved ancient towns in China. Pingyao, which was added to the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1997, attracts numerous tourists from all over the world.
World's earliest evidence of parental care such as storing food for young offspring has been found in 125-million-year-old fossils of carrion beetles known as scavengers in northeast China, a new study led by Chinese researchers said Monday.
The suspect in Tuesday's bus explosion in south China's Guangzhou City has confessed that he set the vehicle on fire in anger after gambling losses, local police said Wednesday.
Hiroto Fujii, 29-year-old mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, was arrested on Tuesday over suspicion of taking bribes over installation of water cleaning system at a public school, local media reported.
Police in east China have detained 60 people over their violent and rumormongering behavior during protests over the construction of a waste incinerator.
One people was killed and six others injured in a shooting after a brawl between rival gangs at a nightclub in Dallas, a city in the U.S. state of Dallas, spilled outside and turned violent early Sunday morning, local media reported.
Eleven Chinese people were confirmed to be infected with the H7N9 bird flu on Wednesday in four regions, with 8 in critical condition, according to local health authorities.
A 59-year-old man having close contact with live poultry died on Monday morning of the H7N9 flu virus, the first of its kind in central China's Hunan province, local authority said.
British Queen Elizabeth II is said to begin sharing some of the monarch's duties with her son Prince Charles, as the latter is set to stand in for his mother in a growing number of official activities, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
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