Aerial photo taken on March 31, 2017 shows Baiyangdian, north China's largest freshwater wetland, in Anxin County, north China's Hebei Province. China announced Saturday it would establish the Xiongan ...
The photo taken on April 3, 2017 shows the blast site at a metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia. At least 10 people were killed, 50 injured and 7 stations were shut down after blasts. (Xinhua/vk.co ...
20 Chinese cities including Beijing have been chosen as pilot cities under a nationwide urban design project, the government said in a new policy document.
The plan aims at promoting urban design and ...
Five people were killed and three others were injured after a blast set a factory warehouse in east China's Anhui province on fire on Sunday evening.
The blast was heard at about 5:20 p.m. Sunday in ...
A large fraction of Mars' atmosphere has been lost into space, contributing to the transition in the climate of the Red Planet from an early warm and wet environment to today's cold and dry atmosphere ...
China's Ministry of Education has issued a document encouraging schools and kindergartens to install surveillance cameras in kitchens and pantries to monitor the entire process of food production and ...
The Chinese government has publicized a draft ordinance promoting "reading for all," to solicit public opinion, a move to create better reading habits among the population.
Realizing the importance o ...
The Ministry of Environmental Protection summoned top officials from seven districts in Beijing, Tianjin and cities in Hebei and Shanxi provinces over the weekend to reprimand them for their poor perf ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent on Sunday a message of condolences to his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos over the flooding and landslides that hit the Latin American country and caused hea ...
Russian Soviet-era poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday in Oklahoma, the United States, at the age of 84, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Yevtushenko's wife told the news a ...
Professor Debbie Senesky, left, works with graduate student Caitlin Chapin on electronics that can resist extreme environments. (Photo/Stanford University)
Researchers at Stanford University are w ...
Rinchen, 40, works at a crematorium in a Tibetan community in northwest China.
For Tibetans, sky and water burials have traditionally been the most common funerary customs. Cremation has only been us ...
Bill Gates shakes hands with a Chinese official after signing a contact. (Photo/CGTN)
A total of 62 overseas NGOs have registered with public security authorities and set up representative offices ...
A man who drove seriously over the speed limit, crashing into a car and killing its two occupants, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail by a court in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province.
The acc ...
Forty-one people who had been involved in election fraud in northeast China's Liaoning Province have been sentenced, Liaoning provincial government said in a statement Saturday.
They stood trial in 1 ...
