LONDON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- A children's hospital designed by children opened its doors Thursday in Liverpool. Alder Hey, the busiest children's hospital in Europe, handling 275,000 patients a year, started a five-day move from 19th century buildings...
BRUSSELS, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday met with visiting President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for closer cooperation on coping with refugee crisis. The situation where hundreds of thousands of peopl...
The 50-meter-long Zhiyuan Warship, located 10 nautical miles southwest of Dandong Port, was sunken by the Japanese navy during a Sino-Japanese War about 12 decades ago. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage launched investigation and salvage...
Jan Andersson from the Nobel Prize Committee in Physiology or Medicine explained why Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize. Youyou Tu got half of this year's prize for her discovery of Artemisinin, and she did that from an herb, so she was the one who identi...
A top U.S. military commander says American forces are responsible for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washing...
Jeff Bezos may run around Seattle, war paint daubed on his head, barking orders into his Fire Phone, urging employees to be nasty to each other. 杰夫贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)可能正铆足了劲在西雅图四处活动，为他家的Fire Phone大声吆喝...
Researchers have provided fresh evidence of a growing gap between vehicle emissions in laboratory tests and their performance on the road, as questions mount about the carmakers conduct in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal. 研究人员提供的最新...
The Beckham family empire has grown to include lucrative endorsements, modelling contracts and a fashion line or two - so it's no secret that Brand Beckham can sell. But a new study reveals just how lucrative the family brand really is. 贝克汉姆家...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to achieving global development goals at a United Nations summit, vowing to reduce inequality and create opportunities around the world. In doing so, we rec...
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Since then, the declaration that arose from that conference has been a guideline to push for gender equality throughout...
WELLINGTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- New Zealanders are rapidly developing a taste for a tax on sugary drinks to offset the public health costs of obesity, according to research out Friday. The findings from two large-scale, nationwide surveys indicated...
Matthias Mueller, head of the group's Porsche sports car brand, pledges to do everything to win back the trust of the public and make Volkswagen an even stronger company. I'm taking on this responsibility at a time when our company is faced with unpa...
A lack of charging piles and stations in urban areas is hindering the promotion of the use of electric vehicles. To solve the problem, the Chinese government is now requesting in a State Council statement earlier this week that all parking lots in ne...
Talking about President Xi's cultural references of sleepless Seattle and house of cards during his speech when arriving at Seattle, Rick Dunham, Co-director of the Global Business Journalist Program of Tsinghua University, says the cultural referenc...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Saturday launched an ambitious public-private strategy to end preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents, with initial commitments of more than 25 billion U.S. dollars for the next...
