In China's northeast province of Jilin, China Changchun Vasaloppet International Skiing Festival is more than a cross-country skiing competition.
Ablimit Tudi, a 67-year-old farmer in Kashgar, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, enthusiastically supports a "gift goat" program that began in the district in December 2011.
Adoption rates across Australia have fallen to their"lowest annual number on record", according to a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Ragged clothes, a tragic story and a begging bowl: beggars are not unusual sites in busy city squares or subway trains. But are they quite what they seem? Some could be richer than you.
Enthusiastic amateurs are using modern tools, such as social networks and digital publishing, to help save endangered cultural sites and forgotten art forms, as Peng Yining report.
U.S. stocks managed to close in positive territory Wednesday as investors tried to assess the strength of the U.S. economy by a string of mixed economic data.
"The Hunger Games 3" became the biggest opening of 2014 with an estimated 123 million U.S. dollars at the debut weekend.
The U.S. military effort to help prevent the spread of Ebola in West Africa could be extended beyond its six-month mission if there is a surge of new cases of the deadly disease, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
News from the weekend that nine Italian banks failed the European Central Bank (ECB)'s so-called "stress test" sent ripples through the Italian economy Monday, but some experts say the reaction may be overblown.
The 19th typhoon of this season Vongfong has made landfall on Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Monday morning, and may hit the capital circle early Tuesday, local media reported.
The Slovak Central Bank (NBS) has sent a signal to commercial banks that the era of cheap loans might come to an end and urged them to be more cautious in their future provision, financial expert Maros Ovcarik announced on the talk show of teraz.sk on Thursday.
U.S. stocks bounced back fiercely Wednesday, as investors were reassured by the Federal Reserve's minutes which signaled that the first rate hike may not come soon.
U.S. stocks closed nearly flat after a volatile session Thursday, as cautious investors were awaiting the closely-watched nonfarm payroll report for September due on Friday.
U.S. stocks closed higher after wavering between gains and losses Wednesday, boosted by tech shares.
The genome of coffee has been sequenced, revealing how one of the world's favorite drinks evolved and providing insights into the beverage's flavor and aroma, an international team of researchers said Thursday.
One month after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China's Ludian, Yunnan Province, life for survivors goes on.
Two major Chinese cities joined dozens of others nationwide to scrap housing purchase restrictions on Thursday in a bid to boost their property market.
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