The presence of the leaders of Russia and North Korea alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing Wednesday was part of efforts to build an anti-Western "new world order", the EU's foreign policy chief said.
Xerox Corp. announced Monday it was buying Affiliated Computer Services in a cash-and-stock deal valued at 6.4 billion dollars that gives the US photocopier company a foothold in a new market.
Wuhan pensioner Zhong Hanneng endured every parent's worst nightmare when coronavirus claimed her son in February, and -- alongside other bereaved relatives -- she wants to sue the local government she blames for his death.
Allen Lau considers himself living proof that love of good writing is alive and well in the age of streaming video and terse text messages.
Li Taitai sits beneath a 100-year-old date tree in the courtyard her family has lived in for eight generations and rubs her eyes in exasperation over Chinese government efforts to demolish her home.
Poisonous industrial sites in India, China and the former Soviet Union topped a new ranking this week of the world's most polluted places, where millions of people are threatened by toxic chemicals, a US-based environment watchdog said.
Mohammed Al Moutawak's village was destroyed by Morocco's powerful earthquake and his apple harvest ruined, but he refuses to leave the land that is vital to small farmers like him.
Grief etched into her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at the loss of three friends in the huge flood that shattered her Libyan hometown.
The world's oceans are close to becoming too acidic to properly sustain marine life or help stabilise the climate, a new report said on Monday.
The world's largest offshore wind farm has been opened in the North Sea off the west coast of Denmark, the Danish company running the project said on Thursday.
The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
The world's largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it into rock started running on Wednesday, the companies behind the plant said.
Chinese engineers have completed the structure of what is expected to become the world's highest bridge, local authorities said.
The world's highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province.
She stood motionless on the pavement near Washington's National Mall, beams of late summer sun caressing her sleek body as dozens of men ogled her and made secret wishes.
The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday.
