Doha struck a defiant and optimistic pose following the news the city had not made the cut for the final three candidates bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games will help boost Spain's flagging economy if successful, the organising committee said after being named as one of the three cities left in the race to host the world's biggest sporting spectacle.
Istanbul's efforts to host the 2020 Olympics are a "priority", the bid chief said on Thursday after the city made it into a three-horse race for the Games despite Turkey also wanting to hold the 2020 European soccer Championship.
Yang Huiyan, 31, vice-chairwoman of property developer Country Garden Holdings Co Ltd, topped The Richest Chinese Under 40 list.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that a US team recently hacked into websites run by the al-Qaida branch in Yemen in an effort to disrupt its propaganda campaign.
Time is running out for finding a common language between Russia and the US over their missile defense disputes, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
A Chinese machinery chamber announced that it has organized 14 solar panel companies to cope with US' antidumping investigation.
Central government-funded expenditures on energy savings and emission reductions, and renewable energies development will total 97.9b yuan this year.
An aviation unit with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has been training in a plateau in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region for two months in a bid to increase the aircraft's maintenance ability.
Luxury automaker BMW on Thursday launched a new plant in the northeast China city of Shenyang to further tap into the world's largest auto market.
A fire that broke out overnight on a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked at a shipyard in Maine, northeast of the US, injured at least 7 people.
A Texas man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for allegedly trying to sneak out of the US to help al-Qaida.
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