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China's ruling Communist Party announced an investigation into a feared former security chief on Tuesday, demonstrating President Xi Jinping's firm grip on power and breaking a longstanding taboo against publicly targeting the country's topmost leaders.

Four teens were charged Tuesday with murder in the fatal beating of a University of Southern California graduate student with a baseball bat and wrench as he walked to his off-campus apartment after meeting with a study group.

The British Home Office on Monday announced a variety of improvements to the visa system in China, including a 24-hour visa service, the expansion of mobile biometrics, and a new service enabling customers to apply for the British and Schengen visa at the same time.

Dozens of people have been killed or hurt in a terrorist attack in China's Xinjiang region, according to the Xinhua news agency.

A knife-wielding gang attacked a police station and government offices in Shache county early Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said citing local police, and "dozens of Uighur and Han civilians were killed or injured".

The official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday night that the violence took place Monday morning in Shache county near the city of Kashgar.

Most of the 1,200 people driven to evacuate by a Northern California wildfire that destroyed 13 homes have been told they can safely return after a series of steady gains in the firefight.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc's metals warehousing unit is exploring its first foray into China, and privately held C Steinweg has expanded capacity there, sources said, as a financing scandal in a major Chinese port fuels a scramble for market share.

Severe drought and scorching heat has damaged over a million hectares of farmland in China's Henan and Inner Mongolia provinces, with no immediate relief in sight, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced its affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping investigations of certain crystalline silicon PV products imported form the People's Republic of China and Taiwan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's name has graced the pages of the Communist Party's flagship newspaper more frequently than any other leader since founding father Mao Zedong, according to researchers.

After more than six weeks of sometimes testy talks, House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a compromise plan to fix a veterans health program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records... After more than six weeks of sometimes testy talks, House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a compromise plan to fix a veterans health ... (more)

The battle started when a government-hired crew tore down the metal cross atop the one-room church in this village surrounded by rice paddies last month.

A Christian evangelist in eastern China says hundreds of police have taken down a local church's cross amid a crackdown on church buildings around Zhejiang province.

A Palestinian girl holds a placard showing a picture of a child crying during a demonstration in support of the children of the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2014 in the West Bank northern city of Nablus.AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH RAMALLAH: While the Gaza Strip burns, the occupied West Bank is smoldering, with violent clashes between Palestinians and ... (more)

The food processing company accused of mishandling meat at its Shanghai, China plant says it will suspend sales and recall all food processed there.

Rescue workers survey the wreckage of TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 on the Taiwanese island of Penghu Thursday, July 24, 2014.

River turns blood red in China. It went from pristine clear water to deep red in a matter of minutes say locals.

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean will make an official visit to the People's Republic of China from Sunday to July 31, 2014 at the invitation of Member of CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Meng Jianzhu.