BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Friday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yua...

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- An additional 3.8 million Mexican people have been pushed into poverty in 2020 compared to 2018 largely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, an agency responsible for monitoring the country's poverty rate said Thursday. A...

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Mexico will host conciliation talks between the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the political opposition, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday. The initiative was originally prop...

In the days before the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony, a giant head emerged, floating over the city. Entitled Masayume (which means "a dream come true" in Japanese), this oversized b

NAIROBI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Tokyo 2020 Olympics marked a watershed for Kenya as a dominant force in the 3,000m steeplechase, an event the country has dominated at the Summer Games for more than four decades. Morocco's Soufiane el-Bakkali on Monda...

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government sued U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors Wednesday in U.S. federal court, arguing that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in Mexico.The unusual lawsuit was fil...

BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Thursday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in y...

In 1913 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, created one of the most recognisable logos in the world. The symbolism of the five coloured interlocking rings, representing the participating continents and the "flags of al...

BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Wednesday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in ...

Longing for the days when he would scream and throw racquets, Nick Kyrgios struggled to care on crucial points in making a first-round exit on Tuesday at the ATP Citi Open.The 26-year-old Australian, who won the Washington event when it was last play...

From Death Valley-like temperatures in Canada to killer floods in China and Europe, we look at some of the worst disasters so far as the IPCC, the UN's climate change body, meets in Geneva.The Mediterranean burnsForest fires are raging around the Med...

South African cryptocurrency developer Riccardo "Fluffypony" Spagni has been taken into custody by US Marshals. Spagni allegedly fled to the US from South Africa to escape fraud charges related to falsifying invoices in a case that dates back to 2009...