A naval formation consisting of aircraft carrier Liaoning has conducted take-off and landing drills in the South China Sea.
Asserting that it desired peace with India as it wanted to focus on development, Pakistan said it was prepared to show 'flexibility' in resolving the Kashmir issue if New Delhi did the same.
Deadly attacks continued throughout the country as campaigning began officially Wednesday.
The landslide, around 0030 IST, destroyed 25 houses, in which an estimated 108 people were sleeping.
A similar blast had devastated a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi province on Sunday, which killed 166 miners and injured over 40.
The appointment of John Scarlett, who authored the disputed Iraqi weapons dossier, as the new head of MI6 has sparked off a political controversy.
The idea of owning a private jet seems to have caught the attention of China's growing number of rich people.
A naval formation consisting of aircraft carrier Liaoning, several destroyers and frigates was on training and testing missions last week, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, quoting military officials.
Scandal-hit German carmaker Volkswagen on Monday said it will recall 1,950 diesel vehicles in China to rectify engine software that cheats on emissions tests.
Police have bust a major illegal emigration racket by capturing a snakehead, or human smuggler, taking people out of China.
US envoy Joseph Di Trani and the Department's Korean Affairs office head James Foster met with North Korean officials in New York last Friday, but with no apparent outcome.
The ruling was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Changsha City, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Xinhua news agency reported.
The zookeepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner.
China on Wednesday said the US' naval and air incursions in the artificial islands in the South China Sea will be counter-productive leading to "miscalculation" and "crisis", as Beijing summoned the American ambassador to protest the US Navy's sailing of a warship into the disputed waters.
A major Chinese telecom firm has won an over $5 million contract in post-war Iraq, despite facing "some resistance" from the US-led provincial authority, the state media reported on Tuesday.
Officials say the move would simplify an irregular process and some estimates say it could quickly reduce the number of executions by 30 percent.
'The scheduling of Imran Khan's visit to Beijing and its focus on the J&K situation underscores that Beijing shares the Pakistani concern that tensions with India are only going to escalate further in the period ahead,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Athens Games champion can do better than 12.91 seconds, says his coach.
3 wishes for China: To qualify for another World Cup since 2002 finals, to host a World Cup and to eventually win one.
The dump near Batujbar village in Indonesia's Bandung district collapsed due to the heavy rains, burying the entire village in thousands of tons of stinking garbage.
China's Wu Minxia will make her bid to become the most decorated female Olympic diver at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
'Four vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices detonated in the Iraqi capital in the span of 90 minutes this morning,' the US military said. 'Initial reports indicate 26 people died in the blasts, with at least 21 more wounded.'
The number, 88888, for the internet messenger QQ, is being auctioned on a domestic Web site with bidding reaching 112,000 Yuan ($13,532) on Wednesday and still rising.
China has carried out a national campaign to crack down on phone sex services starting from July 2004.
China's coalmines are the world's deadliest, with explosions, floods and fires killing thousands of workers each year. Inadequate safety equipment and lax safety rules are often blamed for the accidents.
"One World, One Dream" is the new slogan for the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
China criticised western attempts to "demonise" the BRICS.
A majority of the alien labor management committee members had agreed to prohibit pregnant foreigners from working in Thailand.
A man armed with a knife broke into the school at killed 8 sleeping children and injured four others before escaping.
Sme of the babies developed what doctors called 'big head disease,' where infants' heads appear abnormally large.
"Knowledge of and access to products, such as condoms, can help minimise possible harm to teenagers."
The move is likely to spark opposition from China, which recently witnessed massive protests over Japan's handling of its wartime past.
The farmers, 12 men and 12 women, were buried after some 650,000 cubic meters of loess, a fine wind-blown dust, sank Monday night in Qiaonan village of Jixian county.
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