Tourists visit the archaeological site of Petra, Jordan, on May 20, 2025. Jordan's Petra is a unique archaeological Nabataean ...

People pluck tea leaves at a plantation in Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka, on May 20, 2025. Sri Lanka earned 1.43 billion U.S.

A man works at a cattle farm in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 20, 2025. Nearly 13 million sacrificial animals have been prepared ...

JAKARTA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Death toll from flash floods and landslides in Indonesia's West Papua province has climbed to 10, with 10 people still missing, as search efforts face severe challenges due ...

CANNES, France, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Two people died while a boat carrying some 80 migrants sailed off to reach Britain through the English Channel, the French Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the ...

LONDON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Britain's average house prices rose by 6.4 percent in the year to March 2025, reaching 271,000 pounds (about 363,950 U.S. dollars), the fastest annual increase since ...

TAIYUAN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- A heatwave is sweeping multiple regions in China, prompting authorities to issue high-temperature alerts and roll out measures to ensure water supply, protect food ...

ANKARA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police have arrested 298 individuals suspected of ties to the Islamic State (ISIS) in a nationwide counter-terrorism operation, the country's interior ministry ...

SINGAPORE, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Wednesday announced the lineup of his new cabinet following the ruling People's Action Party (PAP)'s win in the May 3 general ...

KABUL, May 21 (Xinhua) -- A total of 3,319 Afghan families with 18,640 members returned home from neighboring Iran and Pakistan over the past week, Afghanistan's High Commission for Addressing ...

JAKARTA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Bank Indonesia has lowered its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent, along with the deposit facility and lending facility rates to 4.75 percent and ...

ISLAMABAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Two policemen were killed and another was seriously injured in a militant attack in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday morning, official ...