The government of the United Kingdom has proposed banning children from buying energy drinks following concerns about the impact on their health.
The US Department of Justice, questioning Harvard University's use of race as a criterion in its admissions process on Thursday, supporting Asian-American applicants suing the Ivy League school for discrimination.
MALLALA, Australia - Until a few months ago, train driver Gavin Slater had never seen anything like it. Five locomotives, with a combined 15,000 horsepower, ready to pull 101 wagons brimful of grain.
OKCHEON, South Korea - Behind a blue wall that seals a former highway tunnel stretches a massive indoor farm bathed in rose-tinted light.
PHOENIX - Thousands of people paid their respects to US Senator John McCain on Wednesday, standing for hours in the broiling Arizona sun before filing past the flag-draped casket that his tearful wife, Cindy, lovingly pressed her face against after a ceremony for the former prisoner of war who represented Arizona for decades.
VIENNA - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday urged member states to "take more responsibility" and ensure the bloc's migrant rescue operation continues to fight human trafficking in the Mediterranean.
VIENTIANE, Laos - Tailors and dress-makers often throw numerous small pieces of fabric in the trash every day. Sometimes, these rags are destroyed by burning them, which creates carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
HUAZHU, China's largest chain hotel group with more than 3,700 hotels nationwide, recently reported to the Shanghai police that the personal information of its 130 million customers, including their names, identity card numbers, cellphone numbers and boarding details, are being sold online at a price of 320,000 yuan ($46,957). ThePaper.cn comments:
Talks between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States have not progressed as expected after the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. Relations between the two sides took a different turn recently with Pyongyang accusing Washington of "double-dealing" after Trump abruptly called off Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to the DPRK.
In a move to counter the sharp increases in the abuse and production of synthetic drugs, the Chinese government has added another 32 new psychoactive substances including 4-chlorophenyl to a national control list, bringing the total number of such substances under strict government control to 170, the Office of the National Narcotics Control Committee said on Wednesday.
IN THE SECOND DRAFT of the Personal Income Tax Amendment published on Monday, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, included expenditure on care for the elderly as a deductible item. Beijing News comments:
A WOMAN SURNAMED Jiang in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, has been detained because she made fake birth certificates for her children, changing their birth months from September and November to August. Gmw.cn comments:
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