Developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the Long March-8A rocket is 50.5 meters long with a takeoff weight of 371 tonnes. It is capable of carrying up to 7 tonnes to a ...

Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS), said 10 victims died at the scene in Saulsville, Atteridgeville, and another succumbed to gunshot wounds later in a ...

According to data released by the Turkish State Meteorological Service on Saturday, Palandoken Ski Resort in the eastern province of Erzurum recorded the greatest snow depth at 15 cm, while Erciyes ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- China swept the women's podium in the freeski halfpipe competition of the Snow League on Saturday at Genting Snow Park in Chongli, with Olympic champion Gu ...

BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Liu Mengting finished second in the women's freeski final with 172.25 points at the FIS Big Air World Cup in Beijing on Saturday, 3.25 behind the champion Anni ...

CAIRO, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The one-China principle remains fundamental to regional and global stability, and any violation undermines the foundation of the post-World War II international order, said ...

The NMC noted that between Dec. 10 and 13, under the influence of a strong cold front, most parts of China will experience sharper temperature declines of 6-10 degrees Celsius. In some regions in ...

KABUL, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have seized a quantity of illegal drugs and arrested two individuals suspected of involvement in drug trafficking in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, ...

MELBOURNE, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- A robotic float has completed the first oceanographic transect beneath East Antarctic ice shelves, measuring the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani security forces killed nine terrorists in two intelligence-based operations in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said Saturday.

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of stimulant tablets worth nearly 299.8 million rupees (about 1.08 million U.S. dollars) in ...

WENCHANG, Hainan, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Saturday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space. The rocket ...