China has banned flying kites, drones and captive pigeons over central Beijing for more than two weeks as it prepares for a military parade and other celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1. Flying activities that affect flight safety ...
The heads of state of Poland and Germany on Sunday marked 80 years since the outbreak of history's bloodiest conflict with a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell. Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter ...
Twenty years after independence, China eager to help cash-strapped East Timor
The runway at the Xanana Gusmao International Airport on East Timor's southern coast is deathly quiet apart from roosters crowing on nearby farms. Built in 2017 to accommodate a $12 billion energy project, it is now barely being used — the only scheduled flight ...
Hiroshima marked the fifth anniversary on Tuesday of landslides that claimed 77 lives, with residents in the affected areas holding a memorial service to mourn the victims. The memorial was attended by the bereaved families, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and others. Flowers were left at various ...
Northern Ireland marks 50 years since British Army's deployment during the Troubles
Remembering fallen comrades, veterans paraded Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Army's deployment to Northern Ireland — a key moment in the "troubles." Hundreds of ex-service personnel attended the Northern Ireland Veterans Association event in Lisburn, southwest of Belfast. A total of 722 ...
Europe's first explorers set out in search of what was beyond the horizon
The expedition that circumnavigated the globe via the oceans for the first time 500 years ago is among the major journeys of discovery by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1488: Dias With the mighty Ottoman Empire holding a monopoly on trade with the ...
500 years later, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of globe still inspires
Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the Philippines two years into the adventure, leaving Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano ...
After 20 years on global stage, Vladimir Putin's prospects dim
Twenty years ago Friday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience in politics. The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor, and few could have predicted ...
Vladimir Putin's 20-year stint no threat to records of other long-serving leaders
Vladimir Putin has held power for 20 years but he is still well behind the record terms of Cuba's late Fidel Castro and North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung. He is also far from achieving the lengthy stints of many living leaders, with Equatorial Guinea's ...
U.S., Italian and Russian astronauts flew to the International Space Station on Saturday in a launch coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, NASA's Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space ...
Trump hosts Apollo 11 astronauts on moonshot anniversary, undercuts NASA on Mars plans
Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunited Friday, the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. They gathered in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, who got a rundown on his administration's plans to get astronauts back on the ...
Trump casts himself, military and Republican VIPs as stars of July 4 pageant
U.S. military armored vehicles stood near Washington's majestic Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed ahead with an elaborate Fourth of July production with him at the center, as critics accused him of hijacking a nonpartisan celebration of America's Independence Day. Trump, seeking ...
