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China will act to promote judicial independence over the next five years with measures including specialized tribunals for environment and intellectual property cases, state media reported on Wednesday.

In an increasingly global economy, just 1 in 10 teenagers around the world is able to make some key - but complex - financial decisions, including choosing among various loans or analyzing invoices and pay slips.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attend the opening ceremony of the 6th China-U.S. Security and Economic Dialogue and 5th round of China-U.S. High Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange at Diaoyutai State Guest House on July 9 in Beijing.

The project, to be located near the intersection of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, will be the city's third tallest building with a height of 350 metres, the company said in a statement.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third right, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, second right, and U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, second left, tour the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China with Chen Fei, left, deputy director of the Badaling Great Wall Special District, and Guo Jiaqiang, right, deputy director of the Badaling Foreign ... (more)

A dozen people died and 33 others were missing Wednesday after being swept away or buried by two landslides in southwestern China.

July 8, 2014: DS marks two years in China with a special event at DS World in Shanghai Celebrations include delivery of the 10,000th DS in the Chinese market, the launch of a new DS Club & the world-exclusive reveal of DS 6WR's interior DS has just celebrated two years in China - the world's biggest car market - with a special event at DS World in ... (more)

A group of Canadian MPs and senators had a first-hand experience of what Israelis have been enduring when they were shaken up by air raid sirens during their visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday, the trip's organizer said.

A Chinese newspaper published a map of Japan with mushroom clouds rising above Hiroshima and Nagasaki, provoking outrage today from Tokyo's foreign minister, who is from the first of the cities to be obliterated.

International cooperation needed to combat dangerous material, Cao Yin reports in Beijing.

A migrant child is vaccinated at a hospital on Children's Immunization Publicity Day April 25, 2005 in Beijing, China.

From mountains near Beijing, China's version of the U.S. National Security Agency monitors Russia and tracks missiles.

A second Chinese company says it will sue the producers of "Transformers: Age of Extinction" for breach of contract, state media reported Tuesday.

It was a busy weekend for the young members of the Royal family as Prince William, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry travelled to northern England to attend the start of the 101st Tour de France.

In this Jan. 20, 2012, file photo, passengers queue up for a security check at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China.

Booming demand for food in China's southern and eastern cities is worsening water shortages in arid northern provinces, adding to the country's environmental problems, new research shows.

China's President Xi Jinping will visit South American nations including Brazil next week, where he will meet India's new prime minister for the first time before heading to Communist ally Cuba.

Three weeks after a former Chinese official raised the prospect of troops being deployed to quell civil unrest in Hong Kong, People's Liberation Army soldiers gave a public demonstration of their knife-wielding virtuosity - - carving intricate birds out of fresh watermelon slices.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, miner Duan Xukang receives a treatment at a hospital in Fukang City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, after being rescued following a gas explosion at a coal mine in western China, Sunday, July 6, 2014.

This year's unusually high-profile commemoration of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, including a nationally televised speech by Xi, comes amid an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign by Beijing.