Dragon boat races, lion dances, and other festivities have been staged across mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to mark the Dragon Boat Festival ...

China came alive with vibrant celebrations as people across the country marked the Dragon Boat Festival, one of the nation's most cherished traditional festivals on Friday, June 19, 2026. It is ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a poet threw himself into a river.In July 2020, his words helped name a spacecraft headed for Mars ...

India, June 27 -- Public holidays are more than just welcome breaks from work-they reflect a country's history, religion, ...

Take a look at 50 of the world’s most delicious desserts — from cherry pie in the United States to kulfi in India.

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

'Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native ...

The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples ...

A lion dance team heads into Avenidas in downtown Palo Alto for a lunar new year celebration on Feb. 12, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. The official start of the Lunar New Year is Feb. 17, but ...

Zirui Yang has been obsessed with shopping since junior high. “Clothes, shoes and accessories — and they always had to be ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Like a giant Roman candle, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into the night sky on Wednesday, carrying Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander. Its destination is the moon, where ...

Women ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Sri Lanka met members of the Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus at Parliament recently to mark the International Day of Women in Diplomacy ...