Hundreds of cyclists strapped on their sneakers, helmets and not much else for the World Naked Bike Ride's 10th anniversary in Toronto over the weekend.
Three detained foreign human traffickers will be sued in connection with Wednesday's shooting on a vessel carrying more than 300 illegal migrants in Bay of Bengal , an official said Thursday.
Britain's Department for Communities and Local Government said on Tuesday it will expand support for vulnerable people, and over 65 million pounds (110 million U.S. dollars) of funding will be offered to local departments to tackle homelessness in the country.
More land has to be made available for the building of elderly service facilities in China, according to a regulation unveiled on Monday.
Nine people were sentenced to death for terrorism in northwest China's Xinjiang on Thursday.
The Chinese public are outraged at the slaughter of an innocent woman, beaten to death by six suspected cult members last week.
A grand ceremony was held Monday night at the Great Synagogue of Europe in Brussels to pay homage to the four victims of the shooting incident in Brussels.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Wednesday called upon the international community to "break the silence" on open defecation and aid the 2.5 billion people across the world that live without basic sanitation.
The central authority launched a nationwide campaign on Tuesday to encourage people to work and live frugally, and it not the beginning of the top-down war against extravagance.
New rules for China's national college entrance exam, the "gaokao," pose a challenge to the test's reputation for fairness.
While China is knitting an anti-terrorist security network with patrols by armed police, or even helicopters and vehicles loaded with riot guns, the nation needs still to prepare its people to fight the war on terror, thereby mobilizing its most powerful weapon.
At least 26 people have been confirmed dead and 10 others are missing after rainstorms in several provinces in south and central China, according to reports from local flood control authorities.
Thai former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and a number of other people under military detention have been released, local media reported Monday.
This feature tells a speed dating event that the most participants were decked out in costumes and the conversations were mostly geared toward one topic: their love for anime.
China's minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun on Thursday called for doing utmost to treat the injured people in Xinjiang terrorist attack, and severely punishing those terrorists
Strong condemnation of the terrorist attack that claimed over 31 lives in China's northwestern city of Urumqi poured in from the international community on Thursday.
Explosion caused by vehicle collisions occurred around 8 a.m. Thursday at an open market in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, witnesses said.
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