Business events celebrating the Chinese lunar New Year step up next week, with gala dinners planned in the major capitals and ...

Of emperors and dynasties - see how ancient jade and gold, dragons and cranes are used in eye-catching, new ways The history ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

Discover the massive terracotta army, buried for centuries and revealing the grandeur of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Uncover the history, mythology, and mystery of the tomb complex and its ...

An alleged victim of a Chinese PhD student who is accused of ... On Friday, jurors at Inner London Crown Court were shown a police interview where the woman claimed that Zhenhao Zou raped her ...

The change is attributed to the modernising reforms of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In 2017, he launched Vision 2030, "a wide-ranging plan for social and economic change" that included a ...

The Byzantines maintained relations with China. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor. By Alissa Wilkinson Kristen Stewart and Steven ...

Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's intellectuals, the Great Teacher, referring to Qin's founding emperor, Shihuangdi, boasted: ‘He buried 460 scholars alive; ...