A blast occurred outside the gate of the governor's office in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province Saturday afternoon, local television channel Tolonews reported, with no information available on ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Another newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin has been spotted, bringing the number of newborn dolphins in Cambodia to two so far this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, ...

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- South China's Guangdong Province has held 32 civil servants and four organizations accountable for an expressway collapse that killed 52 people and injured 30 last year.

RAMALLAH/CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli authorities on Saturday released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second phase of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. Abdullah Zaghari, head of ...

MELBOURNE, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Following is Madison Keys' path to Saturday's Australian Open women's singles title (prefix denotes seeding): 2nd round: bt Gabriela Ruse, Romania, 7-6 (7/1), 2-6, 7-5 ...

THE HAGUE, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The resounding clash of gongs and drums echoed through The Hague's ice hockey arena on Friday night as a vibrant lion dance captivated Dutch spectators during the "Happy ...

Israeli Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Saturday that Israel will not allow Palestinian residents to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip for the time being. The statement ...

BRATISLAVA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region deserves more global media appreciation, a Slovak news portal founder has said.

A total of 24 people have died and six others have been injured in rainfall-related incidents in Zimbabwe since the start of the rainy season last October, the country's Department of Civil Protection ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A wave of gunfire and rumors prompted a wide-scale security operation in Syria's coastal provinces, resulting in dozens of arrests, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan's Tainan City at 7:49 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

In traditional Chinese culture, which is largely centered around agriculture, the ox has always been regarded as essential, ...