MIAMI - It's been called the "most mysterious star in the universe", bigger than the sun and yet brightening and dimming in an odd way that suggested to some an alien megastructure might be circling it.
BUENOS AIRES - A new shipment of Chinese-made locomotives have arrived in the Port of Buenos Aires to revive Argentina's key Belgrano Cargas cargo train network.
It proved to be another year in which world peace was elusive, but amid the gloom there were a few positive glimmers. Here China Daily lists its top world news stories of 2017.
Chinese enterprises are prepared to help push forward Africa's ambition to industrialize while also conserving the continent's environment, according to a top UN scientist.
TOKYO - Previously, it was TV drama Winter Sonata that captivated middle-aged and elderly Japanese women. But now, it's teenage girls and women in their 20s who are at the center of a cultural wave known as Hallyu. These women use social media to adopt South Korean makeup and fashion trends.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Flames glow, smoke billows and the aroma of slowly burning logs blends with the flavors of lightly charred calamari with broccoli and aioli cooked inside a handmade wood-fired oven.
PARIS - Human beings can spot a sick person, on a photo, a mere two hours after he or she was infected by a germ, researchers said on Wednesday.
Supreme leader blames foreign powers after days of unrest
LOS ANGELES - California made history by becoming the first "sanctuary state" in the United States as a new law showing a will to resist the White House's immigration policy went into effect Monday.
TOKYO - Japanese social media reacted with a storm of outrage to a video by YouTube star Logan Paul showing a suicide victim in a forest near Mount Fuji, as anger spread over the now-deleted video on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - Last year was the safest year for civil aviation since plane crash statistics were first compiled in 1946, two industry studies have found.
India on Monday named Vijay Keshav Gokhale, a former ambassador to China, as its new foreign secretary - a move that seems to be in line with the country's focus on relations with China, an expert said.
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