CHINA

Astronomers can't see what the Milky Way looks like, but they assume its shape by observing its stars and their distances from Earth.

Average new home prices in major cuties are up 9.9 percent, and even more in Beijing and Shanghai.

The $300 million theme park will feature 25 attractions based on films like “Rio,” “Ice Age,” “Planet of the Apes” and “Alien vs. Predator.”

Last month China did away with 350 labor camps. Amnesty International says that they are still around -- they're just not called "labor camps."

Apple's new heartfelt 90-second commercial for the iPhone 5s might just make your eyes rain -- even if you’re a grinch around this time of year.

In the first nine months, Thai tourism receipts grew more than any other country's, but the recent protests could cause that number to plummet.

At the conclusion of an important economic meeting in Beijing, China is targeting six areas that need help.

A new survey found 71 percent of Chinese gauge their success by the things they own.

The tablet's prospects were not great in the Chinese market, but it has outperformed expectations in its first six months.

Foreign investors didn't shy away from U.S. Treasuries during the government shutdown and the threat to default in October.

In the last 8 years, most of the 37,000 “investor-class migrants” who settled in British Columbia originated in mainland China.

Cat bones dug up near the village of Quanhucun suggest little felines were living alongside people more than 5,000 years ago.

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander defended the NSA’s covert surveillance programs on CBS' “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

A Chinese man's hand was successfully reattached a month after it was severed in a work-related accident. Doctors kept the limb "alive" by grafting it to his ankle.

Two years of banking woes did not put a stop to the industry that supplies cash to small businesses.

Jang Song Thaek was a known supporter of Chinese trade and economics. Following his execution, China-based North Koreans are being summoned home.

The deal, expected as early as this week, is likely just the first step of a long battle for Apple in China.

China's space program scored another success with the Chang'e 3 lunar landing, but its ambitious plans for the future includes a space station and deep space exploration.

Even though China is looking to curb carbon emissions, coal power plants will still account for the majority of the country's electric generation.

The German union is demanding better pay and formal negotiations with the Seattle-based e-commerce giant.

Yutu and the lander photographed each other on the moon's surface and sent live images to China’s space mission on Earth.