A visitor tastes a slice of pumpkin during a pumpkin festival in Warsaw, Poland on Oct. 20, 2024. (Photo by Jaap ...

Under the NHMRC draft guidelines, the safe limit of PFOA in drinking water will be lowered from 560 nanograms per liter (ng/L) to 200 ng/L while that for PFOS will be cut from 70 ng/L to 4 ng/L.

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The actions of the United States and Canada disrupted the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, a military spokesperson said Monday in response to U.S. and Canadian ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's Olympic silver medalist Li Jiaman won her first World Cup Final title in her debut at the season-ending tournament in Tlaxcala de Xicohtencatl, Mexico, on ...

MACAO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Official Gazette on Monday published an announcement from the Court of Final Appeal regarding the results of the SAR's ...

TOKYO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The average price of newly harvested rice in Japan has surged 48 percent in September from a year earlier amid higher production costs as well as stronger market demand ...

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's foreign currency deposit rose for the fourth successive month due to solid demand for the U.S. dollar deposit, central bank data showed Monday.

China on Monday cut its market-based benchmark lending rates, with the one-year loan prime rate (LPR) down to 3.1 percent from the previous reading of 3.35 percent. #XinhuaNews ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with visiting Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Syria's capital Damascus on Sunday to discuss a range of issues, with a primary focus on facilitating the ...

In Xi's words, the BRICS cooperation transcends the old formula of political and military alliances, the old mindset of drawing lines on the basis of ideology as well as the obsolete notion of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Raphael Veiga netted a hat-trick as defending champions Palmeiras secured a 5-3 away win over Juventude in Brazil's Serie A championship on Sunday.

JAKARTA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, as President Xi Jinping's special representative, attended the inauguration of Indonesia's new President Prabowo Subianto here ...