Apple's flagship store in the famous Opera district of Paris was hit and looted by four gunmen on the New Year's Eve, with million-euro-worth gadgets being robbed away, local media reported Wednesday.
Myanmar will continue to fight drug in 2013 under a revised 15-year drug eradication plan (1999-2014), which has been extended for another five years until 2019 to maintain the momentum of war against drug.
China adopted harsh road rules, which have been dubbed by nettizens as "the strictest traffic regulations ever". According to the new rules, 52 different sorts of violations can result in deducting points for punishment, up from 38 under the previous regulation.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable but still delicate condition more than three weeks after a cancer surgery in Cuba, his son-in-law said on Wednesday.
Near-term disaster averted, long-term problems remain Negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff” went down to the last possible moment before congressional policymakers finally approved legislation that voided sizable tax increases and spending cuts that would almost certainly have tipped the economy into recession.
Alice, a cosplay group based in China's central Wuhan province, is made up of nine male college students dressing in colorful female costumes. Their performance based on cartoon femal roles have become a media and given birth to a new term "Weiniang" (fake woman) in China's microblogging site Weibo.
Five workers were killed and 18 others injured after a concrete platform under construction collapsed in Shanghai.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has extended New Year greetings to people in a quake-hit area in Qinghai Province and urged the local government to finish the reconstruction program "without regret."
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara announced Tuesday that a period of national mourning will be held for the victims of the New Year's Eve stampede in Abidjan that claimed 60 lives and caused more than 200 others injured.
Myanmar's parliament has earmarked some important laws to be approved in the sixth session of the parliament set for Jan. 9, official media reported Wednesday.
China's eastern metropolis of Shanghai welcomed 2013 with a modern light show staged on its historical buildings on Monday night.
More than 200 casualties including at least 60 deaths were caused in a stampede on New Year's Eve in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire, public television RTI reported on Tuesday.
China's urban population now outnumbers its rural for the first time - a major change, in the country's social structure.But China still has a long way to go to become truly city-based, with many side-effects from the rapid urbanization.
China's tourism administration Tuesday launched the Year of Marine Tourism in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province.
As the New Year holiday comes, China's commodity price, especially food price, is under great pressure due to surging consumer demand.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a Senate bill on Tuesday night, giving the final congressional approval to the bipartisan compromise to avert the "fiscal cliff."
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday said the Senate-passed bill to avert the "fiscal cliff" would add roughly 4 trillion dollars to federal deficit over a decade, largely because it would extend low tax rates for most Americans.
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