The common challenges facing cities today - housing, transportation, healthcare, energy and the environment - will be examined at an upcoming forum by pooling global cities' resources.
TSCHIRN, Germany - Bank manager Juergen Schaller never expected to end up getting a trucker's license and driving 20,000 kilometers per year.
LOS ANGELES - SpaceX plans to launch its first demonstration satellite on Wednesday for its internet-in-space project.
SYDNEY - More than 100 rarely seen fish species were hauled up from a deep and cold abyss off Australia during a scientific voyage, researchers said on Wednesday, including a cousin of the "world's ugliest animal" Mr. Blobby.
MINNEAPOLIS - --3M Co has agreed to pay the state of Minnesota $850 million to settle a major case alleging the manufacturer damaged natural resources and contaminated groundwater by disposing of chemicals over decades, Minnesota's attorney general announced on Tuesday.
The Moon Shines on the Maplewoods Ferry, a classic Huadeng opera play of Southwestern China's Guizhou province, is a landmark in the 300-year history of the local opera form. And it earned lead actress Shao Zhiqing, the Plum Blossom Prize, the highest theater award in China, in 2007.
She was not trained as a director. She has no stars in her crew, or even people with acting experiences. However, her documentary has become a big hit, especially with audiences in China and Africa.
More than four decades ago, a group of Sudanese acrobats were sent to the Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe and underwent three years of professional acrobatic training from 1971 to 1974, as part of the Agreement on Sino-Sudanese Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation signed by the Chinese and Sudanese governments in August 1970.
For more than three decades, Zhu Zhaoyun has been studying herbs, plants and the bounty of nature, to promote the medicine and medical knowledge of ethnic groups in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
A Chinese-born Panamanian politician, who acted as a key intermediary for the China-Panama diplomatic relationship, is in many ways blazing a trail for that relationship.
This is the one time of year when man's best friends take over New York City.
For Mark Willcher, a resident from the US state of Maryland, having a son from China means a lot of happiness and also having to learn a lot - culture, language and traditions that are way different from the United States.
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