Beijing is now in the sights of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had completed its five-day tour on Feb. 18 of the Chinese capital's competitor, Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the bid for hosting the 2020 Winter Olympics.
The Beijing government has announced initial plans to build railways that would link Beijing to two Hebei cities and enable commuters to travel to Beijing in an hour, becoming the first railway to run through the region.
Eddie Ray Routh was recently found guilty of capital murder charges. Routh was the alleged shooter of American Sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.
The US home construction is showing strength in the market. Also Apple is still soaring.
The spread of the superbug in the US heightened the alarm of the lawmakers. Representative Lieu is in the quest for a congressional hearing on this.
Walmart and Amazon should come up with a new strategy because Target's free shipping threshold is just at $25.
Days before the FCC is set to vote on a new set of rules governing the internet proposed by Chairman Tom Wheeler, the Republican Party has conceded the debate on Net Neutrality.
A California law that had already been enacted banning the providing of plastic bags by supermarket stores will now be temporarily suspended reported Al Jazeera.. This was the consequence of a campaign by industry groups against that law that managed to muster enough support to halt its implementation.
A new study published argues that gerbils in Asia, not rats, caused the outbreak of the Black Death plague during the late Middle Ages. The plague spread and eventually resulted in the deaths of over 70 million people worldwide.
The regional education authority has announced the shortage of more than 30,000 bilingual teachers for Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
After China's National Health and Family Planning Commission disclosed last month that under half of the expected two million annual applications for couples wishing to become the parents of a second child were received, the government body presented a more optimistic face to the China Daily on Wednesday.
John Elbon of Boeing Space Exploration believes NASA has laid down all the programs needed to reach one goal: human exploration beyond the moon.
The Federal Government was investigating into the possibility of bringing hate crime charges against George Zimmerman in the matter of the death of a 17-year old Black teenager named Travyon Martin. It has now decided at the end of this investigation that it could not bring such charges against Zimmerman, reported the Orlando Sentinel.
It was the first time Obama exercised his veto power in five years.
Chinese authorities have recorded the largest number of tourists traveling to northwest China’s Shaanxi Province after President Xi Jinping visited the region on Feb. 13.
