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A growing number of Brazilian players are signing for clubs in China, which aims to be a football superpower.
Upheaval elsewhere, and particularly when it underscores the perils and pitfalls of democracy, easily becomes frontpage news in China.
The country is witnessing a sexual revolution and business is booming for romantic short-stay hotels.
The growing emphasis on Xi is fuelling concerns – even in the Communist Party – that China is now falling back towards a Mao-type personality cult.
Chinese company BoyaLife plans on supplementing China’s growing demand for beef by producing 100 000 cow embryos a year.
But the first official meeting between the two countries could backfire for the Taiwanese leader.
But the Pentagon is insisting its naval provocation did not breach any international maritime laws.
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, is being honoured for supposedly "injecting fresh energy" into the global quest for harmony.
Business reporter Wang Xiaolu has been paraded on Chinese state TV to make an on-air "confession" for supposedly triggering stock market chaos.
The horrors of Japanese camps are being told but nothing is being said of what followed.
The detention of Wang Yu was the opening salvo in an unprecedented crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers.
Welcome to Brazil’s first reality show to delve into the lives of the country’s growing class of super-rich.
Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos the Jackal faces fresh charges over 1980s bomb attacks, but jail has only strengthened his beliefs, his brother says.
A highly addictive new drug has the potential to become a ‘weapon of mass destruction,’ writes <b>Tom Phillips</b>.
Town planners are hoping to set a world example.
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was kil
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under pressure to bulletproof schools in conflict-stricken areas, after a boy was killed by a stray bullet.
New policing initiatives have made Rio de Janeiro a safer place, but the ‘pacification’ has been brutal.
Tom Phillips goes into Rio de Janeiro’s notorious favelas to discover how evangelical preachers are trying to stem the tide of killings.
Even Dr Rhonan Ferreira da Silva, an experienced Brazilian forensic expert, was shocked when the body of British teenager Cara Marie Burke arrived.
