More than 200 million of the 758 million employees across China suffer from occupational diseases.

Hammarby Sjostad in Stockholm, Sweden, is one of the city's major urban development projects, an environmentally friendly, sustainable city for a new age. Originally intended as the site of the 2004 Summer Olympics, the area is based around Lake Hammarby Sjo and draws much of its inspiration from the water.

The Ocean and Fishery Bureau of Shandong Province announced that three large, coastal power plants will begin using seawater as their water source to ease pressure on fresh water resources.

The report on the second phase of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Area Development Plan, directed by Wu Liangyong, a professor at Tsinghua University, was released on October 21. The professor suggested the development pattern be based on the idea of "one axis, three belts" where the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area is the "Capital Area".

The results of a survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics found that the cities with the best environment for innovation are Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Beijing, Changzhou, Yantai, Guangzhou and Shaoxing. Shanghai is regarded as the most ideal place in China to open a business.

Two carriages of an empty train parked at the railway station in eastern Pakistani city Lahore caught fire Tuesday, causing no life loss, according to the state- run Associated Press of Pakistan.

The United States and the United Kingdom have invited China to join an international anti-cancer program, called the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, announced here Tuesday.

A Roman-era marble bust of Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was unearthed during recent archaeological excavations at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.

Pakistani government hospitals will remain open during the several-day Eid holidays for treatment of patients with symptoms of the mosquito-borne dengue fever, heath authorities said Tuesday.

While Greek sculptors made the legendary Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the world's Seven Wonders, in Turkey over 2,300 years ago, Chinese kings and aristocrats were building hundreds of tombs in this ancient capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 B.C.).