The speech delivered by Queen Elizabeth II on June 21 leaves a vital week for May, which has become a matter of life and death.
Beijingers were once proud that their city was home to as many hutongs, or alleyway communities, "as there are hairs on a bull."
The president of the Los Angeles City Council introduced on Tuesday a motion to rename a street in the city after former President Barack Obama.
COLOMBO, June 22 (APD) - The Sri Lankan government aims to make the island country free from landlines by the year 2020 after hundreds of people have been killed or disabled from it in former war torn areas.
China has extracted about 235,000 cubic meters of the combustible ice from the South China Sea, beating previous expectations for the mining operation.
Beijing and its neighboring areas will experience heavy rainstorms over the next few days, with some areas to be hit by strong winds and hail, weather authorities warned.
Queen Elizabeth outlined a two-year government program of laws and measures at the state opening of the British Parliament Wednesday.
Beijing has set the goal of making progress in becoming a top international capital over the next five years.
A poisonous gas leak killed six workers at a tunnel construction site in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday morning, local authorities confirmed.
Britain and the European Union (EU) have struck an upbeat tone after the first round of the Brexit negotiations held Monday, as the two sides set a preliminary timetable and the structure of the negotiations ahead. However, uncertainty still lingers due to the divergences between the two and a pressing deadline.
In the lead up to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Ecuadorian political observers on Monday praised the initiatives and decisions the party has taken in recent years to promote economic and social development.
The wide-body passenger jet C929, to be jointly developed by China and Russia, is "absolutely possible" to change the market balance in the Chinese aircraft market, said the Russian Airlines Aeroflot's Deputy CEO Giorgio Callegari Tuesday in Paris.
China has put forward plans for three ocean-based "blue economic passages" that will connect Asia with Africa, Oceania, Europe and beyond, in a bid to advance maritime cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.
At least 15 people were killed and several others injured in a car bomb attack in Wadajir district in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a local official.
Sudan on Tuesday agreed to take care of the Yemeni interests in Qatar, according to Sudan's Foreign Ministry.
A small explosion that occurred Tuesday evening within the Central Station of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, was considered a terrorist attack, a spokesperson of the Belgian federal prosecutor's office told reporters.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Crimestoppers jointly announced on Monday a 40,000 U.S. dollar reward for information leading to an arrest of any individual involved in the apparent kidnapping of 26-year-old Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
简体中文
