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At least 30 percent of newly purchased government cars will be electric and other types of "new energy vehicles," China's official news agency reported Sunday, as the country attempts to tackle air pollution and encourage the electric car market.

The world is focused on Israel's offensive against Palestinians in Gaza, with escalating air strikes and a massing of infantry units along the border for a threatened invasion in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of three teenaged settlers.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development this week released its findings from a survey of students in 18 countries that tested their performance in financial literacy, mathematics and reading skills.

Just over a month after Apple's acquisition of Beats Electronics , the headphone maker made its first major post-acquisition move by filing a lawsuit against Chinese counterfeiters.

China gave Western journalists a rare look aboard two People's Liberation Army vessels on July 5 during the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises in Hawaii, showcasing a hospital ship with complex medical facilities and a destroyer flying U.S. and Chinese flags.

A woman wearing a mask stands besides her bicycle as vehicles stop at a traffic junction on a busy street amid thick haze in Beijing on Feb 25, 2014.

Diana Stumbaugh, a first-grade teacher at Guilford Hills Elementary, poses with a student at an elementary school in China.

THE GLORIOUS People's Republic of China has slammed the Apple iPhone as a "national security threat" because of its ability to track and timestamp its user's location.

CHANGSHA: A fatal kindergarten bus accident struck a nerve in China where school bus safety is a sensitive issue, especially in rural areas.

A unique strain of bacteria may bring some relief to one of China's most noxious problems, the eye-watering stench of its overflowing public toilets.

The other 29 people were handed sentences ranging from four to 15 years' imprisonment by seven courts in the region on Thursday, according to state broadcaster CCTV and the region's official newspaper, the Xinjiang Daily.

Beijing, July 11 - Eleven people, including eight kindergarten children, were killed when a minivan fell into a pond Thursday in central China's Hunan Province, rescuers confirmed early Friday.

The accident in the country's Hunan Province reportedly happened at around 5pm but the bus was not discovered for several hours afterwards.

The building where five members of one family died along with two other victims in an intense blaze had an alarm system, yet witnesses say no warning sounded.

China sentenced 32 people in its western Xinjiang region to prison terms for downloading or sending "violent terror" videos, state media said, as authorities crackdown on people they say are Islamists and separatists behind recent attacks.

China's central bank is looking into allegations by a state broadcaster that Bank of China, the country's fourth largest lender, has been laundering money offshore for clients, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

The College Board apologized for a "culturally and racially insensitive" T-shirt and some comments made at its Advanced Placement World History exam grading event last month.

Samsung is facing a fresh accusation that one of its China suppliers hired children to meet production targets during a period of high demand from the South Korean electronics giant.

In this file photo taken May 16, 2014, Vietnamese expatriates and Filipinos display placards as they join together in a rally in front of the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city in the Philippines to protest the recent moves by China to construct an oil rig near the Vietnamese-claimed Paracels off the contested Spratlys group ... (more)

Standard Bank said it has a total exposure related to China's Qingdao port of about $170 million worth of aluminium, and has started legal proceedings in Shandong Province to protect its position.