Egypt court upholds jail terms against 2...

CAIRO, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's top Court of Cassation upheld on Thursday jail terms varying from three to 25 years against 262 loyalists of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group over violence. T

Feature: Rising hopes, opportunities 16 ...

by Jamal Hashim BAGHDAD, March 19 (Xinhua) -- On a sunny spring day, al-Rabie thoroughfare in al-Jamia neighborhood in western Baghdad, was crowded with people jostling in front of shops on the sidew

Past 30 years, the warmest in past 2,000...

NANJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and American scientists in joint research found that the past 30 years are the warmest time in the past 2,000-year period, due to the effect of anthropogenic gre

Australian Cardinal Pell sentenced to si...

Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail by an Australian court on Wednesday for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melb

Tibet experiences coldest winter in 19 y...

LHASA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has just experienced its coldest winter in 19 years, with seasonal average precipitation hitting record nearly four-decade highs,

TEPCO, gov't still grappling with myriad...

Eight years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, the Japanese government and the utility it is responsible for are still battling the crisis which has yet to be brought under control

Spotlight: TEPCO, gov't still grappling ...

TOKYO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Eight years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, the Japanese government and the utility it is responsible for are still battling the crisis which has yet

With 2020 in sight, former Colorado gove...

by Peter Mertz DENVER, the United States, March 9 (Xinhua) -- After serving as Governor of Colorado for eight years, John Hickenlooper aims higher. He on Thursday night attracted some 2,000 supporter

Targeted poverty alleviation enters fina...

I'm Robert Lawrence Kuhn and here's what I'm watching: China's targeted anti-poverty campaign, now into its final two years. For over 15 years, China has set an ambitious goal: To become a “moderatel

MH370 families still waiting for answers...

As a reporter who's covered the disappearance of Malaysia flight MH370 since the beginning, numerous moments from the past five years stick out in my mind. Firstly, there was the shocking call from t