China's box office sales totaled more than 5.72 billion yuan (901 million U.S. dollars) during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, breaking the previous sales record for the period. The figure…

U.S. President Donald Trump promised strong background checks and mental health screenings for gun buyers as he heard pleas from survivors of the recent Florida school shooting and families affected…

An unknown attacker threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the U.S. embassy in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, before killing himself with another bomb, local police confirmed…

China's star skater Wu Dajing broke men's 500m short track speed skating world record in the quarterfinals of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games on Thursday. Wu, the Sochi 2014 silver…

Iran has located the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed into western mountains on Sunday, official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday. According to Morteza Salimi, the chief of Rescue…

Railway passenger numbers continued to rise on Monday, the fifth day of a week-long Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, according to the China Railway Corporation. Some 9.5 million passenger trips…

India Tuesday testfired its medium-range, nuclear-capable Agni II missile from a military island off the coast of eastern state of Odisha, sources said. "The home-made, surface-to-surface missile was testfired this…