A seriously ill Australian boy was granted his wish on Thursday to become a superhero like Iron Man, with police staging an elaborate event on the Sydney Opera House steps as Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr tweeted his support.
Russia is ready to discuss the possibility of a ceasefire in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Thursday as foreign ministers gathered in Munich in a bid to restart peace talks.
The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting Friday in the international airport of an officially secular tropical island.
A 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz goes on trial in Germany on Thursday accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people - the first of four such court cases that could be the last due to the very old age of the defendants.
Chinese equities capped the biggest weekly gain this year despite a mild correction on Friday as liquidity injection by the central bank and eased rules on foreign funds helped alleviate market anxiety over its worst yearly start.
Amid temperatures as low as-22 C, China's Internet-savvy northeastern provinces are turning their ice and snow into money-spinners.
Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou has taken a step forward in the hotly contested battle for control of Japan's Sharp Corp, winning an agreement to become the preferred negotiating partner for a bailout of the struggling consumer electronics maker.
Core innovation capability of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone has been largely enhanced since the municipal government released a framework plan to link the FTZ with Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone in late November last year.
Shanghai's 20-point strategy to attract leading talent into the scientific research and innovation sector, launched six months ago, is already paying dividends, according to municipal authorities.
China's top economic planner said on Wednesday that the country's 2015 economic growth rate was within a reasonable range.
It does not matter whether George Soros' less-than-cheering observation of our economy is worth the angry media barrage.
COACHED BY Ma Junren, the women's long-distance running team from Northeastern China's Liaoning province won many medals in the early 1990s and then quickly faded in 1993 for untold reasons.
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