The United States considered making a bid for the North Atlantic island in 1867, when it also purchased Alaska from Russia.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday offered reassurance about HMPV, a respiratory infection that is spreading in ...

Shandong Port Group has banned U.S.-sanctioned tankers from calling into its ports in the eastern Chinese province, home to many independent refiners that are the biggest importers of oil from ...

China maintained its tight grip on the yuan with its daily reference rate, as an overnight rally in the dollar threatened to ...

Editor's Note: By the end of last year, China has 48,000 kilometers of high-speed rail out of total 162,000 kilometers railway network. According to the national railway operator, the country aims to ...

BEIJING: More than 400 people trapped by a strong earthquake in the foothills of the Himalayas have been rescued, Chinese officials said, while over 30,000 residents have been relocated, as the search ...

Human metapneumovirus is a respiratory infection that usually causes mild cold and flu symptoms, but it can be more serious ...

Tencent Holdings Ltd. repurchased the most amount of shares in nearly two decades after the tech firm was added to a US ...

As Donald Trump prepares to be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, marking the start of his ...

President-elect Donald Trump says that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he ...

Nicholas Kristof will discuss global and national challenges and how to fix them during an upcoming Sonoma Speaker Series.

The Tennessee Titans made headlines on Tuesday with an unconventional move by parting ways with general manager Ran Carthon while retaining head coach Brian Cal ...