Numbers of lawsuits against the Chinese government are rising, as it becomes easier for citizens to protect their own interests.
China's State Council announced on Monday that the central government is urging private sectors to take part in public works, which are related to cultural services, by extending government procurement deals, as the nation is seeking sources to uplift funds on cultural services, the Global Times reported.
An Amtrak train derailed in Port Richmond, Philadelphia on Tuesday night. At least five people are dead and more than 50 people are reportedly injured after the Amtrak train rolled on its side.
Sea levels around the world are rising at a faster pace than previously studied and according to scientists, melting ice sheets and glaciers near Earth's poles are causing it.
NASA's Curiosity rover sent back images that reveal a blue sunset happening on Mars. According to scientists, the blue sunset is the outcome of perfectly-sized dust particles suspended on the "red planet's" atmosphere.
A new light-powered robot army technology from Georgia Tech provides user control by simply swiping on a tablet computer. The tiny machines then use communication and cooperation to complete one robot army mission.
The central banks of China and Belarus signed on Monday a three-year currency swap deal worth 7 billion yuan, which aims to cater to trade and investment and boost economic growth for both parties, the Chinese central bank announced in an online statement.
Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a 4 billion year-old magnetic field that was once as strong as that of Earth's.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed Dawn spacecraft's first images of Ceres and its bright spots following a 15-day orbit mission.
Scientists recently studied how the bird beak may have evolved by growing dinosaur-like snouts on chicken embryos. In order to this, they blocked two proteins activated when chicken embryos grow their beaks.
Three Beluga whales were found in the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. These whales are native to the Arctic Circle and places like Rhode Island are not considered to be a part of their natural habitat.
Many cities in China have resorted to various solutions to address the increasingly serious problem of waste disposal, which has beset two-thirds of large and medium-sized cities as one-quarter of the cities have no proper garbage dumping sites, the China Business News reported.
After China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced its plan to stop controlling medicine prices in the country, experts suggest that the commission should oversee the patent drug negotiations to avoid corruption.
China's registered drug users reached 2.95 million by the end of 2014, according to China's National Narcotics Control Commission, but the actual number is thought to exceed 14 million.
NASA’s Messenger probe was retired and deliberately crashed onto the surface of Mercury some few days ago, but not until it had transmitted about 100,000 photos of the smallest and nearest planet to the sun. And then, the probe also revealed that Mercury has a gravitational field, had been around for nearly 4 billion years, and has a molten, liquid core.
