Some members of the US congress are playing a dangerous game by manipulating the Chinese yuan debate for domestic political gains.
Repair work Saturday started on a section of the Great Wall that was intentionally damaged by a gold mining company in 2009 in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
A Japanese space probe which scientists hope will bring back a sample from an asteroid is due to return to Earth on schedule late on Sunday in the Australian outback, an Australian defence official said.
A bidder has agreed to pay $2.63 million for a steak lunch with the billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a charity auction held on eBay Inc's website.
Zhang Jingli, deputy director of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), has been sacked and is under investigation for suspected disciplinary violations, sources with the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said here Sunday.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 jolted northern Japan on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, though there were no reports of damage and nuclear facilities in the area were unaffected.
Soccer babes hold an Australian flag as they arrive for a beach soccer match in Berlin, June 12, 2010.
Beijing Saturday launched a medicare reform vowing to increase medical resources so as to cover the city's 17 million permanent residents into its medicare system.
A kite from Belgium in the form of a court jester flies during the Bike and Kite Festival on Blackheath in London June 12, 2010.
Two bombs exploded outside a row of crowded roadside restaurants in Thailand's restive south, killing one person and wounding 26, police said on Sunday.
Teenage US sailor Abby Sunderland was rescued safely from her stricken yacht Wild Eyes in the remote southern Indian Ocean on Saturday.
The United States held England to a 1-1 draw in World Cup Group C opener Saturday, with a stunning blunder by English goalkeeper Robert Green costing his team victory.