A woman walks past the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Elisa Lingria/Xinhua)The Italian National Social Security Institute said that new

People wearing face masks are seen outside a mall in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, on Aug. 27, 2020. Ethiopia's confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 46,407 afte

Julia Jackson (center), mother of Jacob Blake, speaks next to National Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump (right) during a press conference in Kenosha, Wisconsin o

Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure women's rights campaigners said would help tackle gender inequality in the

Taliban fighters attend a surrender ceremony in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Feb. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Saifurahman Safi)
Pakistan's f

File photo taken on July 20, 2016 shows Indiana Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence speaking at the Republican National Convention in C

The Chinese Embassy in Brazil announced on Thursday that all travelers flying to China from Brazil — including those transiting via Brazil — must provide nu

People look at zebras at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles, the United States, on Aug. 26, 2020. The Los Angeles Zoo reopened to the public on Wednesday with h

Temperature sensors, silent train cars, bleach-like odors - US city officials and transport experts are pulling out the stops to lure residents back on rails an

People get tested at a medical center in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo by Lee Sang-ho/Xinhua)

South Korea, once praised as a model for response to

Delegates attend a meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna, Austria, on July 28, 2019. The remaining Iran nu

Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that low concentrations of ozone can neutralize coronavirus particles, potentially providing a way for hospitals to disin

Wind chimes are seen at an exhibition near the Tokyo Station in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 26, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)A wind chime exhibition named "Marunouchi Summer

Australia's devastating 2019-20 bushfires were "clearly" fueled by climate change, a government inquiry reported Tuesday following some of the largest forest fi

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Italy's second generation of immigrants is renewing the fight for automatic citizenship in a land where migration i

France's interior minister Tuesday defended the right of women to sunbathe topless on beaches, after a police warning for a group who stripped off on the southe

Turkey and Greece announced rival military exercises in the eastern Mediterranean for Tuesday as Germany prepared to take another crack at defusing the NATO all

Rescuers in India pulled a four-year-old boy from the rubble of a collapsed building to loud cheers on Tuesday, hours after the five-story apartment block came

Drivers make their way through a waterlogged street during monsoon rains in New Delhi, India on Thursday. Parts of the city recorded an intense spell of rain on

More than a dozen environmental groups and one representing northeast Alaskan tribal villages sued the Trump administration on Monday over a plan to open the se

Donald Trump. Photo: VCG

On the first night of its national convention, the US Republican Party showed more hostility against China than the Democrats, and man

Kenosha County police officers in riot gear form a line behind a burning truck during demonstrations against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Dr Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, apologized on Monday after misrepresenting a key statistic on how effective blood plasma i

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Front) arrives to cast her ballot at a polling station in Chappaqua, New York, the United States, on Nov.

Giant Panda Mei Xiang plays in the giant panda house at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C., the United States, on Feb. 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Ting She