Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday vowed to complete key energy projects in the country on schedule, and continue to strengthen six decades of strong relations.
An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel.
A Dutch man long suspected in the disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba was arrested Thursday in the murder of a young woman in Peru.
Revised regulations on internal management, discipline and formation regulation of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are issued Thursday to further advance the army's development and modernization.
China's Central Meteorological Station Thursday urged authorities in rain-soaked southwestern regions to prepare for geological disasters as widespread thunderstorms were forecast in the next two days.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao returned to Beijing Thursday evening after official visits to the Republic of Korea (ROK), Japan, Mongolia and Myanmar.
A female judge and a court clerk were shot dead in a court in downtown Brussels on Thursday.
The annual male-female birth ratio in China slightly narrowed by 1.11 points to 119.45 boys born for every 100 girls last year, the first drop since 2006, a population official said Thursday.
An international team of researchers in Russia on Thursday began a grueling simulation of a flight to Mars that will keep them locked in a cascade of windowless modules for 520 days -- the amount of time required for a journey to the Red Planet and back to Earth.
Representatives of US fast food chain KFC began to talk with Chinese trade union officials Thursday in Liaoning province, two months after the union demanded an increase in salaries.
Floods have killed 125 people and left 34 people missing in China so far this year, the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said Thursday.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Thursday it will expand the home appliance replacement scheme to 28 cities and provinces from the nine existing pilot areas.