MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The death toll has risen to 23 after a fire broke out at a production facility in central Russia's Ryazan region, local media reported on Monday. Earlier, the regional ...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Amid China's ongoing urban renewal campaign, a courtyard-style multifunctional complex in the heart of Beijing has emerged as a new eye-catcher, breathing new life into ...

ABUJA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 bodies have been recovered while dozens of others are still missing after a passenger boat carrying about 50 people capsized in Nigeria's northern state of ...

Data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority showed that 1,500,656 tourists visited Sri Lanka by that time. The data showed that India, Britain, Russia, Germany and China were the top five ...

BUDAPEST, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu returned to Budapest on Monday to a hero's welcome after completing a mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Research and development expenses for the period totaled 450 million yuan -- an increase of 6.1 percent. As Meitu's core tech hub, the Meitu Imaging and Vision Lab (MT Lab) has secured 463 authorized ...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, has renewed a bilateral currency swap agreement with the Bank of Thailand.

ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and United Nations officials have called for advancing vocational education and talent development programs in Africa to speed up industrialization and ...

Eighty years ago to the day, less than a month before the Chinese people secured victory in their war against Japanese aggression, British journalist George Hogg, who courageously exposed Japanese ...

JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a rare 1,600-year-old mosaic inscription bearing the words "peace be upon the elderly" in Greek, the University of Haifa said in a ...

ZAGREB, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said on Monday that Croatian soldiers will not take part in "other people's wars," referring to the conflict in Ukraine. "Croatia is a ...

Zhou Changjiu, president of the RoboCup Asia-Pacific Confederation and one of the co-organizers of the games, told Xinhua in an interview that the successful hosting of the games in China holds ...