France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France's top ...

Tsunami waves triggered by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Russia's Far East at 7.24am Hong Kong time on Wednesday are ...

Shanghai relocated more than 280,000 people, halted hundreds of flights and ferry services and imposed speed limits on roads ...

Police on Wednesday said they had arrested more than 80 people on suspicion of defrauding banks and money laundering ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East early on Wednesday, causing ...

The fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee will be held in Beijing in October. That's ...

HSBC Holdings reported a 26 percent fall in first-half pretax profit on Wednesday, weighed down by a US$2.1 billion hit from ...

Chief Secretary Eric Chan on Wednesday said heavy rain and thunderstorms on Tuesday developed rapidly and it was difficult ...

The man who shot four people dead with an assault-style rifle inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper was carrying a "suicide ...

A lawmaker said on Wednesday that subsidised homes to be put on the market from this year are more suitable for young ...

Chinese and US officials have agreed to seek an extension of their 90-day tariff truce, after the latest two-day round of ...

A powerful magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of ...