The Romanian Academy on Monday celebrated the 35th anniversary of the first and the only flight to the outer space of a Romanian, namely cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu.
South Korea's e-commerce exports surpassed imports for the first time in the first quarter as Chinese consumers increased their purchase of cosmetics and clothing via the Internet, a government report showed on Monday.
The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday that Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of slaves escape, would take the center spot on the bill, while Jackson, a slave owner, would move to the back.
Kumamoto airport in Japan's quake-ravaged southwest prefecture opened for the first time Tuesday for commercial flights, with the first plane heading for the airport in the disaster-hit region departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport at around 6:00 a.m. this morning.
Chinese visitors have been returning to Korea after the MERS scare last year, boosting sales at duty-free shops, department stores and superstores.
U.S. space firm SpaceX resumed its resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, carrying aboard an experimental inflatable space habitat that might be crucial for future deep space explorations.
Go grandmaster Lee Sedol of South Korea on Tuesday pursued a strategy of building more territory in an early phase at the final match of the best-of-five series with Google's computer program AlphaGo at the ancient Chinese board game.
Artificial intelligence (AI) shocked the world again on Thursday as Google's computer program AlphaGo beat human Go champion Lee Sedol of South Korea in the second of a historic five-game match, taking a 2-0 lead at the ancient Chinese board game match.
Former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan passed away at the age of 94 on Sunday morning in her Los Angeles home, according to her office.
South Korea's parliament on Wednesday passed the country's first anti-terror bill, with opposition lawmakers leaving the plenary chamber after ending the 9-day marathon speeches.
The first round of direct peace talks between the Afghan government and all Taliban and other groups is expected to take place by the first week of March 2016 in Islamabad, said a joint press release issued here by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) Tuesday.
Myanmar's newly-elected region or state parliament on Monday began their first sessions separately in respective regions and states in Myanmar, which also took place simultaneously with the union parliament.
Myanmar's newly-elected parliamentary House of Representatives (Lower House) on Friday formed a 23-member reviewing commission on legal affairs and special cases during the ongoing first session of the parliament in Nay Pyi Taw in a bid to support bill committee.
The 2016 U.S. presidential race formally began Monday in the mid-western state of Iowa, as Iowans were gathering in some 1,681 precincts to make their choices among the candidates in the state's caucuses.
New Speaker of Myanmar's parliamentary House of Representatives (lower house) U Win Myint took over the duty from outgoing House speaker U Shwe Mann Monday in Nay Pyi Taw, according to U Shwe Mann's social website.
Myanmar's new parliament Monday elected U Win Myint of the National League for Democracy (NLD) as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and U Ti Khun Myat of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) as Deputy Speaker of the House.
Germany's Angelique Kerber has commandeered one of women's tennis' biggest upsets, defeating six- time Australian Open winner Serena Williams in a three-set epic in their final on Saturday: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
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