图片1 Seventeen-year-old Kurt Coleman has garnered an enormous following online by posting selfies and boasting about his good looks. The teenager, from Gold Coast City, Queensland, has become a web sensation with more than 172,000 followers on Fac...
A 21-year-old student has been elected Selby's youngest-ever mayor. Councillor Rosie Corrigan was presented with the mayoral chains after spending a year as Selby's deputy mayor. The Selby Town councillor was elected at the council's annual general m...
SAN SALVADOR, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in Sunday as El Salvador's new president with a pledge to establish a new security system to tackle crimes in his country, where an average of 10 people are killed each day. Beginning...
OTTAWA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Poland, Belgium and France on June 3-7, said the office of the Canadian prime minister Monday. Harper is to visit Poland from June 3-4, where he will join world leaders to c...
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Foreign Ministry denied Monday that U.S. intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden has formally requested Brazil for asylum. In an interview aired by local TV station Globo on Sunday...
An anonymous benefactor who has been leaving cash hidden throughout San Francisco has spoken out about the decision to share their wealth - as winners share their joy online. 近日,有神秘的捐赠人士在美国旧金山到处藏钱,并且公布...
QUADRUPLET girls who made medical history when they were born from the same embryo are celebrating another milestone in their lives as they start nursery. 世界首例同卵四胞胎女婴创造了医学史上的记录,现在她们正在迎接人生中...
ROME, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Poverty indicators improved in Italy in 2013 and the number of seriously deprived families fell, the annual report by National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) showed on Wednesday. The ISTAT data indicated that the number of s...
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced on Wednesday the first 12 communities that will be designated Manufacturing Communities as part of a national initiative aiming to revitalize manufacturing industry. T...
BANGKOK Thailand's ruling military has detained a minister in the ousted government, minutes after he denounced last week's coup as illegitimate. Soldiers burst into the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand Tuesday and took former education minis...
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua)-- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help improve water access and quality in China in a 200-million-U.S. dollar deal signed here on Tuesday with private water supplier China Water Affairs Group Limited (CWA). Under the pr...
BRASILIA, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Hackers broke into the internal communication system of Brazil's Foreign Ministry and penetrated the personal email accounts of several diplomats, sources from the Foreign Ministry told Xinhua on Tuesday. The email system...
WASHINGTON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States suggested on Tuesday that its citizens leave Libya immediately due to unpredictable and unstable security situation in the North African nation. The State Department issued an updated travel warning, a...
图片1 A replica of Egypt's iconic Sphinx built in northern China will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure, state media said Sunday. 据中国官方媒体上周六报道,中国北部某地因仿制埃及的标注性...
图片1 It's every Harry Potter fan's dream - a real-life Hogwarts is currently being built in China. 这是所有哈利波特粉丝的梦想中国正在建造一座真实的霍格沃茨魔法学校。 The enormous new university building in Xinle Ci...