In the white heat of the space race, America spent millions of taxpayer dollars developing a ballpoint pen that would work in zero gravity. Confronted with the same problem, the Russians used..

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

Lai, who China detests as a "separatist", has repeatedly called for talks with Beijing, which has stepped up its military and political pressure against the democratically-governed island it sees ...

was China. The controversial pair had long divided British art critics as to whether they were national treasures or merely, as the London Evening Standard’s influential pundit Brian Sewell once ...

This week, China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google. The fact that China was able to develop ...

Chinese artist, who displayed plagiarised work in art galleries in Amsterdam and London, had tried to sue Belgian counterpart ...

While the Chinese government, state media, and users have lavishly praised DeepSeek, others have expressed concerns about censorship and potential surveillance by Beijing. In-built restrictions ...

In September, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed near his school in southern China, ratcheting up tensions between Beijing and Tokyo, which had been asking Chinese authorities to do ...

To celebrate the Spring Festival in the Year of the Snake, 59 "Lucky Star" clay figures were released on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year. A photo exhibition was launched in Southern ...

This year, China Media Group’s (CMG) annual Spring Festival Gala variety show, celebrating the advent of the Year of the Snake, featured the usual line-up of song and dance routines, operatic ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor. By Alissa Wilkinson Kristen Stewart and Steven ...