Scientists have reached another milestone - an enhanced gene editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9.
The Fairfield Police Department and Humane Animal Services of Solano County is looking for a California woman who was caught on surveillance video throwing a dog outside her house.
After pollution in Milan reached unhealthy levels for 30 consecutive days, city officials imposed on Monday a six-hour ban on vehicles to curb air pollution.
The "Frijoles & Frescas Grilled Tacos" restaurant owners made a hilarious CCTV footage of two intruders. The viral video is uploaded on YouTube and it has 1.1 million views in a week on YouTube. The incident happened on Dec. 16.
Passengers of a boat race in a Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Saturday were surprised that when their vessel developed trouble and was sinking, it was nudists who came to their rescue. The incident happened on Saturday near Lady Bay Beach.
Ramadi is no longer in the hands of the Islamic State (IS). The Iraqi Army got back the city considered the biggest capture by the Daesh in 2015 and the capital of Anbar province found in the Euphrates River valley. The city has mostly Sunni-Muslim residents.
An email scandal has hit the state of Pennsylvania that has been called "Porngate." Included in the scandal are at least two state Supreme Court justices and other officials from the office of the attorney general.
Having the same corporate or personal name as the acronym of a dreaded Islamic terror organization is certainly disadvantageous and could lead to problems. What is ironic about the situation is that a U.S. company and a British woman were named not after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but an Egyptian goddess.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently captured the latest hi-res images of dwarf planet Ceres revealing an even more complex surface than ever before.
In the proposed amendment to China's family planning law, couples are encouraged to have at most two children. It also suggests to decrease the number of holiday extension for those who have children or get married late.
State-run Xinhua News Agency recently published an article stating that a number of Chinese residents are starting to buy bottled cans of fresh air from Canada.
Iraq is planning to expand its 2,000-km railway network, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi recently revealed. The country is tapping many Chinese firms in order to carry out the project.
British astronaut Tim Peake aboard the ISS apparently called up the wrong number on Earth from space, apologizing via Twitter.
A special probe team investigating the landslide in Shenzhen concluded that the accident was caused by safety rule violations, and not by natural causes, as the local government apologized to victims during a news conference on Friday, Dec. 25, China Daily reported.
A new English-language website, Baotou, supported by Baotou City and chinadaily.com.cn, was officially opened on Dec. 25, providing readers around the world with an authoritative Baotou English news platform.
