World - Chinadaily.com.cn

World

Legendary 'moles' again on Mexico City home turf

[2017-09-22 08:08]

MEXICO CITY - After earning fame burrowing into piles of rubble in disasters the world over, including the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Mexico's "mole" rescue workers are on tragically familiar ground, pulling people from ruins in their home city.

Reprocessed nuclear fuel returned to Japan

[2017-09-22 08:08]

TOKYO - Nuclear fuel reprocessed in France returned to Japan on Thursday for use in a reactor as the country tries to burn more plutonium amid international concerns about its stockpile.

US government sued over plan on border wall

[2017-09-22 08:08]

LOS ANGELES - California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's plan to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico.

NZ calls in navy to beat fuel shortage

[2017-09-22 08:08]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand navy vessel will ferry diesel fuel around the country as the government rushes to alleviate a dayslong fuel shortage that has cast air travel into disarray in the run-up to Saturday's national election.

Europe's Muslims 'often feel rebuffed'

[2017-09-22 08:08]

VIENNA - A survey of Muslims in 15 European Union countries finds most are willing to embrace non-Muslims, but they often feel rebuffed by the majority populations of the places they live.

Quake-hit school gets new life

[2017-09-21 07:06]

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Just a few kilometers from the Ring Road in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu on Tuesday, colorful balloons and national flags of Nepal and China dominated the street leading to a community school.

WWI U-boat found with 23 bodies inside

[2017-09-21 07:06]

BRUSSELS - An intact German World War I submarine containing the bodies of 23 people has been found off the coast of Belgium, authorities said on Tuesday.

Brando's Tahitian paradise becomes beacon of eco-tourism

[2017-09-21 07:06]

TETIAROA, France - An exotic island paradise in French Polynesia bought by Marlon Brando in the 1960s is using its Hollywood image to tackle environmental issues - with a little help from its jetset visitors.

Scientists decode butterfly puzzle

[2017-09-21 07:06]

WASHINGTON - Scientists have cracked the code of how butterflies get their wing patterns, according to a study published recently in the scientific magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Millions trapped in lives of slavery

[2017-09-20 07:13]

NEW YORK - More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by key anti-slavery groups to estimate the number of victims worldwide of the international crime.

Around the world in 79 days: British cyclist smashes record

[2017-09-20 07:13]

PARIS - A British cyclist set a new world record on Monday by traveling around the globe in 79 days - beating the fictional exploits of Phileas Fogg by a day.

Biggest and smallest animals at most risk

[2017-09-20 07:13]

MIAMI, Florida - Animals on both the large and small side of the spectrum face the most risk of extinction - but for very different reasons, each with vast consequences for the planet, researchers said on Monday.