The Chinese version of a video game called Food Force, which is designed to teach children about world hunger and the importance of humanitarian aid work, will be launched on Thursday.

South Korea and the U.S. military agreed Tuesday to step up efforts to protect cultural properties on U.S. military bases in South Korea, government officials said.

The air of 48.1 percent of Chinese cities is relatively severely polluted or severely polluted, mostly by grain-sized particles of dust.

Americans have spent up to 90.7 billion US dollars a year to treat obesity and other related diseases, according to a research project conducted by researchers in the United States.

One Russian sailor was found dead and three others were rescued on Tuesday after a Russian ship with an 18-member crew sank in the Sea of Japan, the Interfax news agency reported.

The number of foreign students studying in South Korea has almost doubled over the past five years, a government report showed Tuesday.

Yu Minhong, dubbed the godfather of overseas studies, plans to buy one or two colleges that will further expand his educational empire.

While the deadly bird flu virus had not spread as widely as feared in Africa, vigilance was still needed across the world to counter its advance and deal with its impact on humans, a senior UN official said on Monday.

More than 1,000 high school girls in Zimbabwe's capital of Harare marched to the Parliament on Monday in appreciation of the passing of a law to give penalties of up to life imprisonment to people convicted of child sexual abuse.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged a sharp increase in world-wide flu vaccine production capacity to guard against a possible global influenza pandemic.