German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pay a state visit to China from Dec. 5 to 10 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced…

NASA's InSight spacecraft has sent signals to Earth after its successful landing on Mars, indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. NASA's Mars…

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday laid the foundation stone at the ground breaking ceremony of a corridor along the country's border with India in a move to facilitate…

A collector from the Middle East paid 169,000 euros (about 190,733 U.S. dollars), three times of the initial estimate of a section of the Eiffel Tower's original spiral staircase at…

Nancy Pelosi has been nominated by House Democrats to lead them in the new Congress, but she still faces a showdown vote for House speaker when lawmakers convene in January.…

A U.S. rights advocacy group Wednesday filed a motion with a U.S. district court in California to disclose how the U.S. government had forced Facebook to wiretap encrypted voice conversations…

A rare pre-historic stone mask, dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period 9,000 years ago, was discovered in the southern West Bank, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina on Saturday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Thursday.

China and the UK, both big countries and great civilizations with global influence, have "enormous potential and promising prospects" in building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese ambassador to the…

Premier Li Keqiang heard work reports on improving China's business environment to align with advanced international standards at the State Council executive meeting on Wednesday. It was decided at the…