Students at Dalian University of Technology in China are under fire - literally -- with school officials after a graduation photo of a group throwing their hats up in the air with a building burning as the backdrop went viral online. The graduates are seen in the photo unfazed by the dormitory which appears to be engulfed in a plume of smoke in the background while wearing their gowns and throwing their caps in the air.
Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said in Washington on Wednesday that he will travel to Moscow in the very near future.
With dark clouds gathering over China's economy, Beijing is feeling greater pressure to introduce stimulus measures to support growth.
The Middle East situation is purely theoretical to the other nations on our planet, but not to Israeli Jews.
A history of the Russia-Syria military relationship, starting with the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
Several western celebrities have adopted a child from Africa, and a new report from the African Child Policy Forum shows that many other hopeful parents are following suit. But the inter-country adoption process is rife with complications, and the ACPF explains exactly why it is in need of reform
Industrial commodities and global stocks fell sharply Wednesday as evidence mounted that the global economy's highfliers are dangerously close to stall speed. Yields on 10-year Treasuries tumbled to a record low 1.64 percent.
?Diablo 3? has yet to see a release date in China, and fans are using names such as ?America?s Big Pineapple? to search for the game online, according to Reuters. The country?s leading e-commerce platform has shut down sales at the government's request due to pending approval from Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government says it will allocate the equivalent of $27 billion to renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in 2012, but the battle against the deterioration of China's environment will be a long and tough one.
China will not see any major government stimulus in the near future, a report published by the state-run media agency Xinhua said Wednesday, news which sent tremors through Chinese stock markets.
Several parts of Homs were shelled Wednesday morning while Damascus witnessed overnight explosions, close on the heels of UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's warning that the recent violence had left Syria at a tipping point.
Futures on major U.S. indices point to a lower opening Wednesday ahead of anticipated reports on the Mortgage Applications Index and Pending Home Sales.
India strongly responded Tuesday to a Chinese media report which argued that the three Indian traders, who were kidnapped and abused by Chinese suppliers, bore the responsibility for the incidents by delaying or defaulting on payments after having made the purchases in advance.
Asian markets fell Wednesday amid Spanish banking sector woes and a report that China is not planning further stimulus measures to lift its economic growth.
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said he would like to see more of the company's products assembled at home than in China and contain more U.S. components such as semiconductors.
China and Japan, not exactly the world's best friends, will soon be walking away from the dollar, hand-in-hand. Although the two countries have their share of diplomatic problems, June 1st will mark a historic day in Sino-Japanese relations, as they move to conduct trade directly using their own currencies.
A boatload of Russian arms will arrive in Syria next weekend, a Western source told the Al Arabia television station on Tuesday.
Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. (Tokyo: 8002), which has been on a global shopping spree in recent years so it can become a dominant grain supplier to China, just took a strategic step toward that goal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the P5+1 group on Tuesday for being too lenient on Iran.
Graft and debt are crippling China's railway industry and eroding trust in the government's management of a crucial sector of transportation -- and may kill the dream of becoming the world's leader in high-speed trains
Production of the highly anticipated MacBook Pro update seems to be in full swing, after a new report claims that Apple's Foxconn factory is outsourcing to keep up with demand for the revamped laptop.
Shares of Chinese electric carmaker BYD Company Ltd. (Hong Kong: 1211), which is partially owned by Warren Buffett, recovered some of the losses suffered after one of its e6 electric cars caught fire in a crash which killed three people in southern China.