China kicked off its annual travel rush with hundreds of millions heading home to celebrate the new year, but an increasingly large number of Chinese are pondering whether or not to make the homecoming.
Students in central Beijing will soon be allowed choice in their subjects for the first time, under a scheme announced by the city's education commission on Thursday.
Afghan army soldiers will receive training in Pakistan for the first time in a sign of growing military-to-military contacts, the Afghan embassy said on Thursday.
E-cigarettes may compromise the immune system in the lungs and generate some of the same potentially dangerous chemicals found in traditional nicotine cigarettes, a new study in mice said Wednesday.
"Left toes pointed back, arms raised to your sides, knees bent, bodies slightly forward."
Many Chinese migrant laborers who left home to pursue their dreams in cities are anticipating that the rural-urban development gap is narrowing and returning to their hometowns in the countryside.
After landing in Antarctica, Liang Hong put on a wedding dress watched by penguins.
While a trace of excitement surrounding the recent high-profile trip to India by U.S. President Barack Obama still lingers, the Asian country's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has come here to convene with her Chinese and Russian counterparts on Monday.
The latest round of peace talks on Ukraine crisis on Saturday ended in the Belarusian capital of Minsk without an agreement.
Radhika Subedi, a 58 year-old housewife from Gathhaghar, has not cooked food in her kitchen for the past few days for lack of cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
Industry experts are worried about the improper use of drugs for children at home, and advise parents to consult pediatricians in dosage to protect children from any risks.
African transport ministers on Wednesday vowed to set up a single African air transport market by 2017.
A woman aborted her second baby in central China's Hubei Province after her 13-year-old daughter threatened to commit suicide.
Australia's top business leaders are more optimistic about business growth than their overseas counterparts and say they will hire more people in 2015, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Once a gray market notorious for selling copycat electronics, the Huaqiangbei mall in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, has become a paradise for innovators.
Couples are more likely to quit smoking, exercise more or lose weight if they take up these healthy habits together, a new study suggested Monday.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday that two stock exchanges formerly owned by Direct Edge Holdings have agreed to pay a 14- million-U.S.-dollar penalty to settle charges that their rules failed to accurately describe their order types.