The 23rd edition of the tournament, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is the first to feature an expanded format of 48 teams. It is also the first World Cup to be co-hosted by three countries: Canada, Mexico, and the US. Having kicked off on June 11, the tournament is set to run until July 19.

Municipal leaders from around the world will meet in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China's Yunnan Province for the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue from Tuesday July 14 to Thursday July 16. On the agenda: eco-friendly cities, human-nature coexistence and shared solutions for a greener planet. Theme: Rainforest & Home – Coexist, Co-create, Share, with discussions covering eco-friendly urban development, human-nature coexistence and shared global solutions.

Chinese authorities on Saturday intensified emergency response measures with Typhoon Bavi set to slam into the country's eastern coast, resulting in meteorological, water resources, transport and emergency management authorities issuing alerts and reinforcing flood-control efforts ahead of the expec

A Chinese medical expert team has arrived in Kampala at the invitation of the Uganda and exchanged views with health departments and medical research institutions, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

This video shows the new Long March-10B carrier rocket's debut flight from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in South China's Hainan Province on July 10, 2026 as China achieves first-ever controlled rocket recovery of its first stage. (Compiled by Zhu Yingqi and Zhang Yingze)

Iran will not enter negotiations with the United States until Washington backs down from its positions, semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday, rejecting earlier media reports that Iran had sought such negotiations.Citing a source close to the Iranian negotiating team, Fars said the start

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are set to visit the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next week, as

​The 2026 China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges was launched to deepen dialogue between the two civilizations.

China successfully launched the Long March-10B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Friday. The mission achieved a historic milestone with the successful vertical descent and controlled recovery of the carrier rocket's first stage onto an offshore sea platform.

Vessel open day events and national defense education activities were held simultaneously in four cities on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China's Coast Guard Law, with the domestically designed and built Lingshan, a vessel of a class that has gradually been deployed

A wildfire roared through a remote expat community in southern Spain overnight, killing at least 12 people as victims tried to flee the flames in cars and on foot, authorities said Friday.

For years, Norwegian salmon was one of the first things many Chinese people associated with Norway.

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing has emphasized the need to take early and proactive measures to guard against Typhoon Bavi.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Washington has agreed to continue negotiations with Iran, although it has informed Tehran that the ceasefire is over.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris announced on its official website on Saturday that it will close at 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Saturday and Sunday due to soaring temperatures, instead of its regular closing time of 00:45 a.m. (2245 GMT) the following day.

On the eve of the 2026 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Ankara, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte claimed NATO could not afford to be "naive" about China and hyped up the so-called threat stemming from "China's massive nuclear build-up."