The Chinese Table Tennis Association (CTTA) on Monday announced the roster for the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 971.82 points, or 2.48 percent, to 38,170.41. The S&P 500 sank 124.50 points, or 2.36 percent, to 5,158.2. The Nasdaq Composite Index shed 415.55 points, or ...

QUITO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- At least five people died and six others were injured in an armed attack Sunday night in west Ecuador's coastal city of Manta, local police said Monday.

KHARTOUM, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government announced Monday that it has agreed to build UN logistical supply bases in North Darfur State in western Sudan.

The special envoy of the secretary-general for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, called on Sunday for credible guarantees to protect the Red Sea from becoming a prolonged arena of conflict, deeming such ...

Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and the rebirth of the land. Hieroglyphs from 2,700 BCE depict offerings of fish ...

MOGADISHU, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, has officially inaugurated the Migration Response Center (MRC) in Burao in Somaliland, a ...

KIGALI, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Confucius Institute at the University of Rwanda held celebrations on Sunday afternoon to mark this year's United Nations Chinese Language Day. The event, under the ...

As spring brings warmth to most of China, Harbin is defying the seasons with innovative, year-round ice and snow attractions. Its newly certified world's largest indoor ice-snow theme park reopened on ...

China's ongoing fourth national cultural heritage survey will prioritize the identification of historic sites and architectural works from the modern era, according to a directive that the National ...

Six people drowned in a boat accident on Monday in Pingjiang County, central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said. At around 5:30 p.m., a boat carrying six villagers capsized in the waters ...

From 1994 to August 2003, Aliyev successively served as vice president and first vice president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan. In August 2003, he was appointed prime minister. Two months ...