• Why more Americans are gardening as Trump returns to the White House
    2025-01-09

    Just two days after Election Day, Maggie Mosher, a retired history teacher based in San Jose, California, began setting up raised beds to build a winter garden in her backyard.

  • Celebrities among those who lost homes as devastating Los Angeles fires
    2025-01-09

    Wildfires that are burning in and around Los Angeles have burned the homes of several celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore and Paris Hilton.

  • S. Korea's Yoon faces new arrest attempt
    2025-01-09

    South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol faces a new and potentially more robust attempt to arrest him for insurrection after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break a security blockade and take in the impeached leader.

  • 30 days to go: Harbin gears up for return of Asian Winter Games
    2025-01-09

    As the 9th Asian Winter Games marks its 30-day countdown on Wednesday, the host city of Harbin is entering its final preparation stage, accompanied by growing enthusiasm.

  • Missing Chinese actor found safe in Myanmar
    2025-01-08

    Chinese actor Wang Xing was located after four days of lost communication, the Chinese Consulate-General in Chiang Mai said on Tuesday.

  • Public security join in the all-out rescue efforts following Xizang 6.8-magnitude quake
    2025-01-08

    About 3,400 people from various departments including forest firefighters, armed police, public security and the military, along with more than 150 vehicles, had been sent to the front line to carry out search and rescue operations.

  • Many Americans have come to rely on Chinese-made drones. Now lawmakers want to ban them
    2025-01-08

    Russell Hedrick, a North Carolina farmer, flies drones to spray fertilizers on his corn, soybean and wheat fields at a fraction of what it would cost him to use a conventional ground spreader.

  • China opposes addition of 11 firms in U.S. "entity list"
    2025-01-08

    China's Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday that it firmly objects to the U.S. move to add 11 Chinese firms to its export control "entity list" on so-called military-related grounds.

  • Japan's Nippon Steel will not give up on U.S. Steel: CEO
    2025-01-08

    Japan's Nippon Steel CEO Eiji Hashimoto said Tuesday U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to block its acquisition of United States Steel was politically motivated, while stressing the company has no intention to give up on the takeover deal.

  • Trump Sr. called for US ownership of Greenland. Now Trump Jr. is visiting
    2025-01-08

    Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland on Tuesday, just weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, ruffled feathers by reiterating his desire to obtain control over the autonomous Danish territory.

  • Chinese actor goes missing at Myanmar-Thailand border, triggering discussion on telecom fraud
    2025-01-07

    A post on Sina Weibo on Sunday night, which said Wang Xing, also known by his stage name Xing Xing, went missing at the Myanmar-Thailand border, has sparked widespread discussion on Chinese social media platforms on Monday.

  • Here’s what trend forecasters think you’ll be wearing in 2025
    2025-01-07

    For many of us, 2025 stretches ahead as a giant unknown. For trend forecasters, it’s already mapped out — or some of it, at least.

  • As Trudeau resigns, Trump doubles down on Canada becoming 51st state
    2025-01-07

    In a post to his social media platform Truth Social Monday, Trump wrote “many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.

  • China congratulates Indonesia on becoming full member of BRICS
    2025-01-07

    China welcomes and warmly congratulates Indonesia on becoming a full member of BRICS, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday.

  • NYC congestion pricing policy starts on schedule amid pushback
    2025-01-06

    While not likely to face its first stringent test until Monday morning rush hour, New York City's new congestion pricing plan for drivers kicked off just after midnight Sunday, and transportation leaders declared that it went off without a hitch, despite some pushback.