A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan National Assembly on Monday, wounding at least 19 people and sending a plume of black smoke across Kabul. It was the second northern district to be hit in two days.
EU foreign ministers formally agreed on Monday to prolong until January 2016 damaging economic sanctions against Russia to ensure it fully implements the Ukraine peace accords, officials said. Russia responded that the sanctions were "unjustified and unlawful".
Chilean authorities declared an environmental emergency for the Santiago metropolitan region on Monday, forcing about 40 percent of the capital's 1.7 million cars off the roads and the temporary closure of more than 900 industries.
Lao Shu, or "Old Tree", is not a professional painter. Yet, he has gained considerable fame via Chinese social media for his Chinese ink-wash paintings accompanied by his poetry.
That sound you can hear, is the collective sigh of satisfaction from millions of elderly consumers. The relentless chasing of the youth market appears to be slowly on the wane.
The theory that women who rise to the top of their profession try to stop other women succeeding is a myth, new research has found.
Conflicts around the world sent the number of people forced to flee their homes to a record 59.5 million last year, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Aspiring politician Asha Salum is busy trying to convince people in her area of Dar es Salaam to support her candidacy for a council position at elections later this year, one of a growing number of women seeking political office in Tanzania.
Australian aboriginal people who lived around the now-arid area at Lake Mungo 24,000 years ago were likely to have been skilled inland seafarers, new research reveals.
A landmark bill to recognize the Aboriginal people as the first inhabitants of Western Australia will receive bipartisan support, the state's premier said on Thursday.
A marine sergeant was convicted on Wednesday of murdering an Iraqi civilian in 2006, the second time a military jury has returned a guilty verdict in what has become one of the most complicated and long-running criminal cases from the Iraq War.
A 21-year-old white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday, said US officials, who are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
