We get it. Everyone wants an iPhone 7, a 4K TV and a new laptop. At least according to the Consumer Technology Association, which says those items are the year's most sought after.
More than two years after doctors at a clinic in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata told her that her newborn had died, Kanon Sarkar believes that her baby girl is still alive.
Police are searching for an armed man after finding a dead woman in a retirement home where some 60 missionaries are living in southwestern France, sources close to the matter said on Friday.
New U.S. single-family home sales posted their biggest decline in nearly a year in August after soaring to nine-year highs the month before, with analysts saying the trend in sales remains positive.
A surge in housing mortgage loans and an undersupply of construction land contributed to a sweeping increase in home prices across China.
Nine people were found dead inside a home for elderly people in northern Japan, police said on Wednesday, after a powerful typhoon tore through the region.
At first glance, the large building at the foot of Lingyan Mountain in the southwest of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, resembles an upscale holiday resort.
Property investment growth in Shanghaislowed in the first half of this year amid intense competition among developers for new land parcels in mainland China’s commercial capital, fuelling worries about a short supply of new homes.
Migrant worker Zhang Suorong has returned to his rural hometown, but not for a holiday, wedding or funeral. This time, he is home to fight the flood.
Doctors say with only 19 palliative care specialists in the city, priorities and training must change.
Palliative care expert suggests that preparations should be made to allow elderly to end their life in care homes before considering death at home.
Former health minister conducts study into ways to change procedure to allow for comfortable home deaths.
The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was acting on an order from so-called Islamic State (IS) to "kill infidels", officials say.
The government is carrying out the first survey of minors in the rural areas with the aim of ensuring they are safe and have access to education, as Luo Wangshu reports from Huarong, Hunan province.
They say they have no hope of stepping onto the city's housing ladder and it is getting more difficult to earn a decent wage.
Pushing a handcart to sell cucumbers on the streets in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar city, Kalsom is the first woman that has dared to break the tribal traditions and earn an independent livelihood.
China's property sector continued to recover in April, with more cities reporting higher new home prices and the market divergence narrowing, an official survey showed on Wednesday.