WASHINGTON — The standoff between President Donald Trump and his former FBI director intensified Tuesday with the news of James Comey's memo saying that Trump asked him to shut down the agency's investigation into ousted national security adviser Mic

China's railways are forecast to handle 3.025 billion passenger trips in 2017, China Railway Corp said on Tuesday during its annual meeting in Beijing.

A combination of pollution and heavy fog affected countless road, rail and air passengers across northern China on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD -- Up to 35 people were killed and 61 others wounded on Monday in a car bomb explosion at a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

CAIRO - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a gun attack on an Istanbul nightclub which killed 39 people on Sunday, the group said in a statement on Monday.

Leaders, from left, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, French President Francois Hollande, China's President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South African President Jacob Zuma arrive for the opening ce

Jets of the Red Arrows, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, fly in formation in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, on Oct 27, 2016. The British aerobatic team will perform at the 11th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition

Chinese companies are actively targeting overseas scientists and researchers in California's Silicon Valley, in a move to attract them to China and boost the development of the country's information technology industry, according to a recent report.

Supervisors being made to answer for the illegal acts of underlings to encourage a culture of responsibility

ANKARA -- Turkish artillery fire has killed 17 Islamic State (IS) militants since Mosul offensive began, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

Tom's BaoBao, a shop selling baozi (steamed buns) in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has gained increasing popularity with customers since its opening in July.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose infront of a sand sculpture ahead of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in Benaulim, in the western state of Goa, In

Pedestrians walk on a flooded road after heavy rain caused by Typhoon Sarika in Qionghai city, South China's Hainan province, Oct 18, 2016. Nearly half a million people have been evacuated as of Tuesday afternoon.

BEIJING -- The Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft successfully completed its automated docking with the orbiting Tiangong II space lab at 3:31 am Wednesday Beijing Time, according to Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC).

Firefighters try to extinguish fire at the factory of chemicals giant BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany where several people had been injured following an explosion, October 17, 2016.

An aerial view of the landslide site in Sucun village in Suichang county, Zhejiang province, on Sept 29, 2016

Streets in Fuzhou city are inundated in flood water as Typhoon Megi makes landfall in the southern province of Fujian on Wednesday

ANKARA - The Turkish parliament on Tuesday approved to extend the state of emergency for another three more months, Dogan News Agency reported. Turkey declared a state of emergency on July 20, 2016, days after a failed military coup, which Ankara

Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the start of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, US, Sept 26, 2016.

Workers hang a new Mao Zedong portrait on the Tian'anmen Rostrum on Sept 27, 2016, before celebrations of the National Day.