MADRID, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The earliest known ancestor of the modern mammal, a creature vaguely resembling a dog, has been discovered on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

The quake hit 30 km west of Port Vila at 12:47 local time (0147 GMT), with a depth of 43 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Thompson recalled that a nearby building completely collapsed to the ...

Israel will invest 410 million shekels (about 114 million U.S. dollars) in 55 tourism projects across the country, the Israeli Tourism Ministry said Tuesday in a statement. The ministry will allocate ...

MANILA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) has detected 52 mpox cases this year, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said Tuesday. Herbosa said the DOH tallied only one death ...

BAKU, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Transit freight traffic through Azerbaijan has grown more than 2.5 times between 2019 and 2024, Shahmar Movsumov, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, was quoted by ...

DHAKA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 497 people were killed and 747 others injured in 415 road accidents in Bangladesh in November, said a report published on Tuesday. According to the report by the ...

GAZA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 35 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, said Palestinian sources. Israeli warplanes bombed a three-story residential house in Al ...

BRUSSELS, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Council of the European Union adopted the 15th package of sanctions against Russia on Monday, according to a press release of the European Commission.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the seventh foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) via video link on Tuesday. Wang, also ...

BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Shenzhou-19 crew members aboard China's orbiting space station on Tuesday completed the first extravehicular activities (EVAs) of their mission, according to the China ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi authorities said Tuesday that 116 international drug traffickers have been arrested so far in 2024. A statement by the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that the ...

The 2024 ASEAN Championship opened on December 8 and runs until January 5. Cambodia is in Group A alongside Malaysia, Singapore, Timor-Leste and Thailand. Cambodia had previously drawn 2-2 at home ...