New viruses found in New York City's house mice: study
Someunseenvirusesaswellasbacteriacapableofcausinglife-threateninghumanillnesswerefoundinNewYorkCity'shousemice,accordingtoanewstudypublishedTuesday.Thefindingsa
Germany faces air transport chaos as public sector strikes
WarningstrikesacrossGermanybeganearlyonTuesdaymorning,affectinganestimated90,000passengers.Publicsectorworkersacrossthecountryaredemandingapayriseof6percent,acc
Another DPRK soldier defects to South via DMZ: Seoul
ADPRK(theDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea)soldierdefectedtotheSouthonThursdayacrosstheDemilitarizedZonethatdividesthepeninsula,Seoul'sdefenceministrysaid.The"l
China's bike-share company Ofo rolls into Sydney
China'sbike-sharecompanyOfohaslaunchedoperationinSydneyonThursday.Alreadyin180citiesacross17countries,thepedal-poweredChinesegiantgeneratesover32milliontransact
Xi calls on CPC, KMT to contribute to cross-Strait ties
XiJinping,re-electedgeneralsecretaryoftheCentralCommitteeoftheCommunistPartyofChina(CPC)Wednesday,saidtheCPCandKuomintang(KMT)Partyshouldcontributetothepeaceful
At least 950 killed in South Asia’s annual monsoon floods
Devastatingfloodstriggeredbymonsoonrainshavekilledmorethan950peopleanddisplacedcloseto40millionpeopleacrossnorthernIndia,southernNepalandnorthernBangladeshinrec
Death toll rises to 450 from Sierra Leone mudslide
Thedeathtollhasrisento450inthisweek’sdevastatingmudslideinSierraLeone.Officialssaidathirdofthedeadarechildren.Masssearchoperationsareunderwayforthehundredsthata
