After years of trying to improve wastewater treatment systems, urban governments are now facing a new challenge: what to do with the tons of sewage sl...
Olympic fans who failed to secure tickets for the main events can now look forward to the next best thing: watching the Games on huge TV screens acros...
Around 70 cooked pigs and hundreds of baskets of food were yesterday presented to Tonga's new king in a lavish traditional coronation ceremony for...
Olympic all-around champion Paul Hamm, winner of one of the most controversial golds in 2004, withdrew from the Beijing Games on Monday due to injury....
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined the General Assembly on Monday in calling on all peoples who are at war to observe the traditional two-week Olymp...
Trade officials said in Geneva yesterday that a high-level summit to salvage a global trade pact collapsed, after the United States, China and India f...
Seventeen people were killed and more than 150 injured in two explosions in a crowded Istanbul square late on Sunday night.Investigators yesterday wer...
In Guangzhou, clients wanting to stay overnight in sauna and massage parlors must now show ID and register their personal information, according to th...
Typhoon Fung Wong, the strongest and eighth tropical storm to hit the mainland's coast this year, lashed Fujian province at 10 pm yesterday, bring...
A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissio...