A swimmer finishes a winter swimming race in the Vltava River in Prague, the Czech Republic, Dec. 26, 2024. More than 360 ...

NEW DELHI, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were killed and over two dozen others injured after a passenger bus skidded off a bridge on Friday amid heavy rains in the northern Indian state of ...

SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament voted Friday to impeach Prime Minister Han Duck-soo who had been serving as acting president following President Yoon Suk-yeol ...

HANOI, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The People's Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City on Friday announced the death sentence of 27 people involved in a transnational drug trafficking ring from Cambodia to Vietnam, ...

SACRAMENTO, United States, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Whooping cough cases have surged dramatically across the United States, reaching their highest levels in a decade with more than 33,000 reported cases ...

The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls dating back to one million years ago are unveiled at the Hubei ...

Tourists visit Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, in Fayoum, Egypt, on Dec. 26, 2024. Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, ...

People attend a commemoration event for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Dec. 26, 2024.

BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua met with Ian Marshall, Grenadian ambassador to China, in Beijing on Friday. The two sides exchanged views on enhancing communication ...

BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's local governments issued new bonds worth 4.67 trillion yuan (about 650 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of this year, data from the Ministry of Finance ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- An 83-year-old woman was killed in a stabbing attack in the central city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv on Friday, according to an Israeli hospital. Police have arrested the ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Russian navy has received its newest Yasen-M class nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, local media reported Friday, citing the Russian Defense Ministry. The submarine was ...