China Formally Arrests U.S. Citizen Accused of Stealing State Secrets

Under Mr. Xi, the Chinese government has been more vocal about its fears that the country is vulnerable to political and commercial spying.

Her background left her particularly vulnerable to arrest in China, he added, noting that previous cases of spying charges against Americans have often involved ethnic Chinese.

Search for Nefertiti's burial site given green light

Despite relentless looters, the boy king's final resting place continues to be one of Egypt's most prolific discoveries. Uncovered by Howard Carter in 1922, it remains the most intact tomb ever unearthed. And has been a treasure trove for archaeologists, where close to 2,000 objects were recovered.

The academic also surmised that recycled equipment found in the burial chamber predates Tutankhamun's accession.

Pope Francis, Cuba, and the Yanqui Capitalist Curse

he remembered the early 1990s when he was 18 and his family lived on one Cuban peso a month. “We had nothing,” he says. “No clothing, no food, no hope. Nothing will ever be as bad as that.”

It’s ironic that while he may help alleviate the restraints that have kept Cubans in extreme poverty for five decades, in so doing he may also support the very capitalism he speaks so strongly against.

'Born Among the Dead': The Children of Mexico City's Tragic 1985 Earthquake

It was 7:17 AM when a tremor with a moment magnitude of 8.0 shook the foundations of Mexico City which, at the time, housed 10 million people.

By presidential order, Mexico was off limits a few days. It's said that the government initially wanted to block any international aid convoys in order to prevent the world from knowing the full scale of the disaster. The government's biggest concern at the time seemed to be that FIFA would want to cancel the World Cup, which the country was supposed to host the following year.

Ancient squirrel's nest leads to discovery of giant virus

The virus has been at rest for 30,000 years about 30 meters deep in the Siberian permafrost. Astrobiologists using it as kind of stand-in for Mars have taken core samples looking for life. Claverie said he stumbled on research that described reviving a plant from a seed that had been buried for 30,000 years.

With Some Paths Shut, Migrants Seek Others

Under new regulations passed by the Hungarian Parliament that go into effect Tuesday, those convicted of crossing the border illegally or damaging the border fence could be sent to prison for years. A new system of “transit centers” was also to be built at the border to hold migrants there while their cases are rapidly investigated, with those rejected to be sent back to Serbia.

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V&A Asks, What Is Luxury?

While in the past luxury could be defined by the cost of the materials used, these days it often rests on looser constructions — like time, craftsmanship and resourcefulness.

Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years

After analyzing the data, the team determined with its model that snowpack levels as low as this year’s were a once-in-1,000-years event. But because of rising temperatures caused by human activities, the researchers said they thought that snow droughts would become much more frequent.