UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Thursday expressed his disappointment at the Security Council's failure to adopt a western-proposed resolution.
While the film director James Cameron was undertaking a 10,898-meter dive into the western Pacific Ocean in March, Fu Wentao, a 30-year-old man from Hunan province, was busy preparing for China's 7,000-meter dive project.
Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that threatened Syrian authorities with sanctions.
President Hu Jintao on Thursday proposed measures in five priority areas, including financial assistance, to boost China's ties with the continent.
Basketball sensation Jeremy Lin's brief but spectacular run in the Big Apple is over. Now the question is whether "Linsanity" can play as well in Texas.
Feng Yi plays in the water at a zoo in Guilin, July 19.
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday attended the opening ceremony of the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
US space agency NASA announced that astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un was named as marshal of the country's army, completing his control over the state and military, DPRK media reported on July 18, 2012.
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with the visiting President of South Africa Jacob Zuma at Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing.
Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajha, his deputy, Assef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice-President General Hassan Turkmani died after a bombing in the capital.
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A Chinese girl who was adopted and moved to the US has returned home to try to trace her birth mother.