The court ruling handed a major victory to Trump in a tortuous legal battle over the Republican leader’s efforts to restrict immigration
The justices ruled 5-4 that the most recent version of the ban, which the administration claims is justified by national security concerns, was valid
Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.
China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.
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Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface on Saturday in a rare successful rescue,.
Li Fu is 29, owns five cars and has a diamond-encrusted cell phone. Wang Qingzhan is 44, works as a cleaner and lives with his family in a tiny room.
Voters in East Timor cast their ballots on Monday in a presidential election they hope will pull them from a cycle of violence and political tension that has paralysed efforts to rebuild one of the world’s poorest nations. It is the first poll since the former Portuguese colony declared independence in 2002.
A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and wounded, officials said. Witnesses said the front wheel of the Garuda Indonesia plane blew out as it touched down, sending flames shooting into the air and triggering a series of explosions.
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A colonial-era railway that was once the lifeblood of Indonesia’s Aceh could paradoxically be revived in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which obliterated the coastline of the province. Built in 1876 by the Dutch, the 600km single-gauge railway in the north of Sumatra island sank into oblivion a century later amid unrest.