Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday declared a state of public health emergency for all of New York State, in response to this year's increasingly severe flu season.
Two officials in southern Chinese province of Guangdong were recently exposed online due to holding multi-million dollar property portfolios that suggests corruption. Now, disciplinary authorities have begun investigating the accusations.
Reformers across the world identify with ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's leading role in Latin America, Nicaraguan Vice President Omar Halleslevens said Sunday.
China will increase nine to ten times the quota of Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) in 2013, Guo Shuqing, head of China's top security watchdog said on Monday in Hong Kong.
China's railway police began a 60-day campaign on Tuesday against ticket scalpers - who buy tickets only to sell them at higher prices - ahead of Spring Festival.
Experts at a Chinese think tank say China will surpass the United States both socially and economically by 2049 - the year the People's Republic of China will celebrate its centennial anniversary.
The death toll from a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday rose to eight as more bodies were retrieved from the debris, local authorities said.
Thursday marked a bloody day for Pakistan as four blasts rocked the country, leaving at least 116 people killed and 235 others injured.
Steven Spielberg's biopic "Lincoln" swept the 85th Academy Awards nominations announced Thursday with 12 nods. Hot on its heals is Ang Lee's "life of Pi", which was named in 11 categories. David O. Russel's "Silvers Linings Playbook" and Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables" followed with eight apiece. Ben Affleck's political thriller "Argo" was mentioned seven times.
In a new sign that growth in the world's second largest economy is slowing...China's foreign trade missed the government's 10-percent annual target for 2012, rising only 6.2 percent, from 2011.
Beijing maintains that China opposes any infringement of its sovereignty by Japanese aircrafts or vessels... After Japan warned they could open fire, to deter Chinese patrols.
Two people were injured in a high school shooting in Taft city of Kern County, California, Thursday morning.
India's Supreme Court Friday said that "there is no safety for women" amid the prevailing law and order situation in the capital while responding to a public plea after the recent horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old woman.
As much as 50 percent of all food produced around the world ends up as waste, a new report said on Thursday.
Two people were injured in a shooting incident at a high school in the U.S. state of California on Thursday morning, and the shooter is now in custody, local police said.
There are two battlegrounds between apple and other mobile phones like Samsung, Nokia, one is the legal battle, the other is the battle of software.
A lawyer defending three of the six accused in last month's horrific New Delhi gang rape case alleged on Thursday that police have tortured his clients in a bid to coerce them into admitting the crime even as a fast-track court trying them adjourned the case till Monday.
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