A fire and a bomb alert by a K-9 Sniffer dog prompted the White House lock-down yesterday as U.S. President Obama and members of his family prepared to leave for Selma, Alabama.
The 2,000 year old city of Hatra in Iraq was attacked and destroyed by Islamic State militants while the militants in Syria are targeting Christian villages, DW reports. Hatra was classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1987. It is approximately 110 kilometers south of the militant’s stronghold of Mosul in Nineveh province.
Archaeologists believe this scraper could date back to back 15,800 years.
China will not implement an unlimited second-child policy this year. Accoriding to a family planning official, the government still requires more time to study the repercussions of the current family planning policy.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pushed on Friday the creation of “twin engines” to achieve medium-high levels of growth and development in the country.
Dawn, NASA's spacecraft, entered the orbit of the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday, after traveling 3.1 billion miles from Earth. Dawn will spend the following 16 months exploring the structure and terrain of Ceres, which is approximately 600 miles across-roughly the size of Texas, USA.
An Iraqi man was gunned down by an unidentified assailant while he was watching his first snowfall in his new American hometown, according to Dallas police.
Speaking in the Chinese capital on Saturday, the CEO of Chinese technology brand Xiaomi Corp., Lei Jun, called upon the formulation of a national standard to bind the country's smart appliances and devices in anticipation of the realization of the Internet of Things (IoT).
A Philadelphia Police officer was gunned down during a shootout with two suspects who were trying to rob a video game store in North Philadelphia on Thursday.
The Beijing municipal government recently announced its heightened effort to keep the China capital's population below 23 million by 2020 as it faces shortage issues on water and other resources.
Scientists found Streptococcus pneumoniae, which can cause pneumonia, in Beijing smog.
Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, who has been in a political asylum Russia, says that he is ready to come back to the United States if promised to be given a fair trial.
According to the National Development and Reform Commission, there is nothing wrong with China's recent regulatory measures on the Internet.
Scientists know Ceres once had an icy ocean at its core and might still have it.
The ocean on Mars mostly would have been located in the northern hemisphere.
