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January 02 2019, 08:00
Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace "peaceful reunification" with China, in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island's political sovereignty and freedoms.
January 02 2019, 08:00
Human rights groups have denounced Netflix after the streaming platform blocked an episode of a comedy show in Saudi Arabia which mocked Riyadh's official explanation of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
January 02 2019, 08:00
Tens of thousands of women in the Indian state of Kerala have formed a series of human chains extending an estimated 620 kilometers (385 miles) as a show of solidarity in protest at a refusal to admit women to the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
January 02 2019, 08:00
The new year on Earth began with a record-setting space mission 4 billion miles away.
January 02 2019, 08:00
A baby boy was plucked alive Tuesday from the rubble of an apartment building leveled a day earlier by a suspected gas explosion in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.
January 02 2019, 08:00
1. China's rocky year: China's economy is entering uncharted territory, and that could spell trouble for the rest of the world.
January 02 2019, 08:00
The new year on Earth began with a record-setting space mission 4 billion miles away.
January 02 2019, 08:00
California's Joshua Tree National Park on Wednesday will become the latest casualty of federal government's partial shutdown, closing its campgrounds amid health and safety concerns over near-capacity pit toilets.
January 02 2019, 08:00
A US citizen who has been detained in Russia on suspicion of spying is a retired Marine who was in Moscow for a wedding, and his detention has his family concerned about his welfare, his twin brother said Tuesday.