China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said Saturday that some 2,177 people from 10 provinces had been held accountable in the country's latest round of environmental inspection. By Thursday, inspection…

Software robots using artificial intelligence technology are being used to make automated telemarketing calls in China. But questions are being raised as to whether this technology is a useful innovation…

President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered "political synergy" with the Trump election campaign, the federal special…

China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe was launched in the early hours of Saturday, and it is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. A…

 More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally…

The winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine say they expect substantial advances toward treating cancer in the next several decades, although it is unlikely the disease could be…

Authorities across France braced Thursday for the possibility of more riots and violence at anti-government protests this weekend, holding emergency meetings and deploying tens of thousands of police and security…

A South Korean court on Friday rejected prosecutors' request to issue arrest warrants for two former top court justices over their alleged involvement in a judiciary power abuse scandal believed…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday launched the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) outside Cape Town.This brought to nine the total number of SEZs in the country. The Atlantis…