BERLIN, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Second-placed Bayer Leverkusen closed the gap on leader Bayern Munich after defeating Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the 16th round of the Bundesliga on Friday.

Beijing has made a fresh rebuke to some voices labeling China's recent cases of infection with human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, as an "unknown virus", calling such claims "run counter to basic ...

WARSAW, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Poland men's handball team won the Four Nations Cup tournament with three victories in a row after they beat Tunisia 33-24 on home ground in Plock on Friday. The host ...

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Ethiopia at 2358 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 41.0 km, ...

SANAA -- One person was killed and nine others were wounded in the U.S.-British-Israeli joint airstrikes on northern Yemen on Friday afternoon, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 696.75 points, or 1.63 percent, to 41,938.45. The S&P 500 sank 91.21 points, or 1.54 percent, to 5,827.04. The Nasdaq Composite Index shed 317.25 points, or ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Established U.S. department store Macy's Inc. has announced the closure of 66 underperforming stores as part of a broader restructuring plan to shutter approximately 150 ...

OTTAWA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Friday she won't run in the Liberal leadership race. The foreign minister said she is ready to become the first woman to ...

OSLO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Norway's largest travel fair TravelXpo opened on Friday, with "Hello, China!" booth drawing many visitors. The booth, featuring distinctive Chinese cultural elements, ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 3.2 million children under 5 are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year in war-torn and famine-afflicted Sudan, a UN spokesman said on ...

Also on Friday, the far-right Freedom Party, which won the September parliamentary elections, officially began coalition negotiations with the conservative People's Party. The talks are set to ...

FRANKFURT, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Approximately 231,000 owners of small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in Germany are considering closing their businesses by the end of 2025 mainly because retiring ...