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Chinese President Hu Jintao said Sunday that China doesn't intentionally pursue a large trade surplus and that it will focus on expanding imports in the coming years.
Armed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are recording pollution levels and posting them online. It's an act that borders on subversion.
Chinese millionaire Su builds skyscrapers in Beijing and is one of the people powering China's economy on its path to becoming the world's biggest.
Machine gun-toting paramilitary police guarded major intersections Tuesday in a far western Chinese city where 20 people have died in recent violence the government blames on Muslim extremists.
Chinese officials found five fake Apple stores in a southwestern city and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday.
China's showcase bullet trains linking Beijing and Shanghai were stopped by power failures for a second time Tuesday, less than two weeks after they launched.
Yao Ming's expected retirement could diminish the NBA's once-burgeoning popularity in China, with many fans saying they would no longer watch games.
This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. It wants to put a man on the moon, sometime after 2020.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Thursday she is "very positive" after talks with Chinese officials about her candidacy to head the International Monetary Fund and said Beijing's stake in the body should increase.
European stock markets rose Friday after encouraging German economic data and Wall Street futures pushed higher ahead of what could be a volatile session as traders close out positions ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Reed Elsevier Group PLC, the London and Amsterdam-based educational publisher and owner of the LexisNexis information service, reported Thursday its first-half profit fell 48 percent and said it would sell new shares to raise money to cope with debt from its acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc.
Aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce PLC on Thursday reported a six-fold surge in first-half profit to 1.86 billion pounds ($3 billion) as it marked up the value of foreign currency hedges on its books.
Michael Jackson looked in perfect health and gave an electrifying performance two days before his death during rehearsals for his planned comeback concerts, a photographer who took pictures of the rehearsals said Tuesday.
The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
Most stock markets rose modestly Wednesday ahead of an announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is expected to leave interest rates unchanged but also say how far it intends to boost credit markets with cash injections.
A British author said Monday she has been banned from a Dubai literary festival because her forthcoming novel contains references to homosexuality.
Oil prices rose to above $42 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders speculated that a second front is opening in Israel's Gaza offensive, but analysts said gains would likely be limited by continuing weakness in demand for crude.
The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics — deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
Asian and European stock markets were down sharply Monday amid growing alarm over the world's financial system after a seismic shake-up on Wall Street, with Lehman Brothers saying it would file bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch being sold to Bank of America.
After traveling around the Arctic Circle alone, walking across South America, venturing through African war zones and hiking deep into the Amazon, Borneo and Sumatra jungles, Mike Horn is ready to embark on his most ambitious project yet.
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