Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible, or just the New Testament, for free during the Olympic Games next month.Tens of th...
Prospects of the G8 reaching a meaningful agreement on how to best fight global warming dimmed as leaders, with a long list of global problems, began ...
The Olympic torch whisked along the Great Wall for the first time yesterday when torchbearers ran across the six-century-old Jiayu Pass at the western...
Ye Zhiping is not the type of man who waits for others to offer him assistance, he just rolls up his sleeves and gets on with it.The headmaster of San...
In 1954, when Shan Lun arrived in Yangling as a fresh college graduate, he found the place was no more than a backwater village with neither tap water...
Family members of Li Shufen, the 17-year-old girl whose death late last month sparked violent protests over the weekend in Guizhou province, told repo...
Lester Blake is happy, but not for any breakthrough in his engineering profession. His source of happiness is a clean and tidy public toilet, with an ...
Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a sever...
The majority of participants in a public hearing yesterday agreed on the price of a ticket for the new Beijing airport rail - 25 yuan ($3.65).The hear...
The Mongolian government yesterday declared a four-day state of emergency to quell riots over alleged election frauds that have killed at least five p...