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China's Supreme People's Court has issued a landmark ruling, clarifying that drivers remain criminally responsible as the operator of a vehicle even when its assisted driving systems are active.
Ten people, including a suspected shooter, were found dead following a mass shooting in a town in northeastern British Columbia on Tuesday, Canadian police said.
China has the ability to halt the decline in fixed-asset investment and push for a gradual stabilization in 2026, but it will hinge on restoring private-sector confidence and aligning investment policy more closely with structural reforms, leading economists said.
As the country's biggest holiday approaches, the Chinese New Year — especially this year's extended nine-day break — has become a critical period for consumption, offering a vital window for retailers to bolster their performance.
Across China's major cities, a quiet migration known as Lao Piao— literally "elderly drifters" — is unfolding as older adults leave their hometowns to help care for grandchildren in urban households.
Farmers in Spain and Portugal say crops worth millions of euros have been wiped out after a so-called storm train of consecutive devastating weather fronts caused torrential rain and high winds across the Iberian Peninsula, wreaking havoc, leaving fields flooded and leading to several deaths.
Chinese courts provided judicial assistance to more than 128,600 individuals in 90,400 cases from 2023 to 2025, significantly alleviating hardships for many in need, an official from China's top court said on Friday.
After hours spent conducting outdoor rail inspections in temperatures hovering around minus 30 C, Liu Bingbing returned on Wednesday evening to the Hailar track maintenance section's Cuogang work area, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, expecting to rest in a warm area.
China's gold production edged up in 2025 while overall consumption declined, amid a shift from jewelry toward investment products, data from the China Gold Association showed on Thursday.
A brief spell of spring warmth in China has been swiftly replaced by a strong cold wave, causing temperatures to plummet, bringing snow and disrupting travel across much of the country.
The number of generative artificial intelligence users in China reached 602 million as of December, a nearly 142% increase from the end of 2024, according to a report released Thursday.
At least eight people died after a bus carrying a wedding procession met with an accident in Baitadi district in western Nepal on Thursday, a senior local police officer said. "The bus crashed in Purchaudi Municipality of the district at around 7:55 p.m.According to the police, the cause of the accident could not be identified immediately. As many as 60 people were traveling on the bus when the accident occurred.
China has witnessed a continuous decline in serious crimes and a marked decrease in the incidence of frequently occurring crimes that impact people's sense of security, a senior official of the country's top procuratorate told a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.
Shanghai will adhere to the direction of intelligence and integration, strengthening and expanding its traditional advantageous industries to create a "second growth curve" that drives future development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), said Mayor Gong Zheng.
As the first country to ban concealed door handles on passenger vehicles, China is expected to further secure driving safety while reinforcing its growing role in shaping global automotive safety standards, industry experts said.
Sanchez said social media platform X has amplified disinformation over his administration's decision last week to regularize half a million undocumented workers and asylum seekers.
Proficiency in Chinese is becoming increasingly valuable in Vietnam's labor market, with demand for Chinese-speaking professionals outpacing other foreign languages such as Japanese and Korean, according to the 2025 Salary Report released by Vietnamese recruitment platform Joboko.
Africa's health systems could face heightened strain following the United States' full withdrawal from the World Health Organization on Jan 22, with African experts and policymakers warning that the move could weaken disease surveillance, disrupt frontline care in conflict-affected regions, and deepen inequalities in access to essential medicines across the continent.
Chinese railways handled nearly 12.24 million passenger trips on Monday, the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush in 2026, China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.
China prosecuted more than 11,000 repatriated individuals from northern Myanmar for telecom fraud during the first 11 months of last year, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Wednesday.
China has no plans to increase tax on its gaming industry, multiple sources close to authorities and industry told China Daily on Wednesday.
A man initially handed a suspended death sentence for a series of violent retaliatory crimes now faces capital punishment following a retrial by a high court in Yunnan province.
A Vietnamese couple present a banner in gratitude to doctors of the Children's Hospital of Fudan University after their child, suffering from Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, was successfully treated in September, 2024.
Five people were killed in a fire at a nursing home in Qiqihar city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Monday, local authorities said Tuesday. The fire, which broke out on Monday at about 3 pm, has been put out. Investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.
This was announced by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Monday, the 30th World Wetlands Day. The administration added that the achievement was realized through more than 3,800 projects.
Two people have been killed and three others remain missing after a bridge under construction collapsed on Monday afternoon in Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province, local authorities said early Tuesday. Rescue operations and an investigation into the cause of the accident are underway.
China's top court has launched a major initiative to prioritize collaborative mediation over litigation to resolve social and commercial disputes.
A U.S. judge delivered a blow Saturday to Minnesota's bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state that has left two US citizens dead and fueled massive protests across the country.
A close adviser of Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has resigned after his name appeared in the latest released correspondence from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Five members of a notorious Myanmar-based criminal group were sentenced for six criminal charges, including fraud and intentional injury, by a court in Chongqing on Friday.
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