Cyclists pass in front of Arc de Triomphe during the 106th Tour de France in Paris, France, July 28, 2019. /VCG Tour de France, the most important cycling event on the annual sports calendar,
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2020. /VCG U.S. stocks jumped on Tuesday as optimism that th
Hong Kong police made their biggest seizure of cannabis plants ever in a raid on a drug-storing parking lot in Kwai Chung in small hours on Monday. The cannabis plants
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset
Several 5G broadcasting masts across the Netherlands were damaged in what authorities have described as “a worrying development.” Similar acts of sabotage have previous
Non-essential businesses and services must close. Rian Maelzer/CGTN It's nearly a week since Malaysia tightened its so-called Movement Control Order, and three weeks since the restrictions wer
A woman walks on a street in Turin, Italy, on April 4, 2020. (Photo by Federico Tardito/Xinhua) Italy has been in a nationwide lockdown for nearly a month to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Steven Forster, a German teacher, felt that he had walked into the set of a disaster movie when returning to north China's Shanxi Province from his motherland in early February. Shanxi's capital city
Portugal registered 24,300 less flights in March 2020 compared to the same month of 2019, the state aviation authority NAV Portugal announced on Monday. Only 43,800 flights were registered last mon
00:31 The British government on Sunday warned that outside exercise could be banned if people flout stringent guidelines to contain the coronavirus infections.Daily exercise, such as w
Boris Johnson's fiancee Carrie Symonds, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, says she has spent the past week in bed with symptoms of coronavirus.Posting on s
A passenger with face mask is seen on a metro train in Manhattan, New York, the United States, March 4, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst.
A passenger with face mask is seen on a metro train in Manhattan, New York, the United States, March 4, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst.
Latvia recorded the first death of a patient with COVID-19 on Friday, as the number of coronavirus infections continue to rise in the Baltic country. According to national health authorities, the pat
Visiting medical experts from east China's Shandong Province have held a video conference with British colleagues led by Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam, exchanging experi
If you’ve ever tried to buy the Harry Potter audiobooks, you probably noticed something kind of tricky: there’s two very different versions. The version most widely available in the US is
Israel on Tuesday allowed the shipment of medical supplies and maintenance equipment to the Gaza Strip to combat COVID-19, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Abdulatif el-Haj, director of i