US President Barack Obama stepped back from the brink Saturday and delayed an imminent military strike against Syria to seek approval from the Congress.
Obama seeking lawmakers' OK for strike
Putin pressures Obama over Syria
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Another earthquake killed at least five and injured more than two dozen in three counties in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces on Saturday.
The opening ceremony and event settings of the 12th National Games, the country's "mini Olympics", shows a more frugal approach to the quadrennial event
A former official of Shaanxi province, who drew public outrage last summer after a news photo showed him smiling at the site of a deadly highway crash and for his collection of luxury watches, pleaded guilty to corruption charges on Friday in Xi'an.
The August 1st Aerobatics Team, China's first and best-known aerobatic demonstration team, performed its first show abroad in Moscow on Friday.
Chinese number one female player Li Na had paid special attention to Friday's third round match against British teenager Laura Robson, who surprisingly knocked her out of the tournament at the same round last year.
Two global entertainment companies, one in New York and the other in China, plan to build a world-class, state-of-the-art theater adjacent to the Terracotta Warriors exhibition in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.
Computerization is affecting our ability to handwrite Chinese characters. It is a sad trend that cannot be reversed. But the upside is higher efficiency in the use of the language as the bar for literacy keeps getting lowered.
President Xi Jinping urged the nation's military to make greater efforts in training troops and in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development.
Xi calls for innovation push in Dalian
The games, which are held in Liaoning province, will start on Aug 31 and run for 13 days. While some of the sporting competitions have already taken place.
Slower economic growth and competition from high-speed railways were a drag on the first-half performance of domestic airlines, though there was wide divergence in the sector.
China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec Group, has agreed to pay $3.1 billion for a 33 percent stake in Apache Corp's Egyptian oil and natural gas business.
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