Chen Ruolin rallied on her last dive, earning four 10s, to win the gold medal on women’s 10-meter platform, making China 7-for-7 with one event remaining in the...

Iraq and China will sign a deal next week to develop the Ahdab oil field, restoring an agreement that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, an Iraqi spokesman...

This is one of the coolest ideas for a hotel ever! And no, these pictures are not photo-shopped! The Songjiang Hotel in China is actually going to be built inside a 100...

Swarms of plainclothes police took away four foreign activists who tried to unfurl a Tibetan flag outside the main Olympics venue on Thursday, squelching the latest...

Jamaican double sprint gold medallist Usain Bolt is now on a par with the great US sprinter Jesse Owens but should show more respect to his fellow competitors, IOC...

Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, playing through a steady rain to beat Wang Jie and Tian...

Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, playing through a steady rain to beat Wang Jie and Tian...

Xue Chen and Zhang Xi have won China’s first medal in beach volleyball, beating Brazilians Talita and Renata for the bronze.

Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar gave Indian sport a double delight Wednesday.

Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of women’s gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.

There’s been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women’s gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I...

The American flag landed on the scorer’s table, launched by a family member with exceptional aim. Henry Cejudo grabbed it from his coach and draped it around his...

Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later...

The Beijing bishop appointed by China’s state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and...

Swim demon Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal of the 2008 Olympics last night, his 14th overall. How does he do it? It’s that crazy 6′4

Jamaican Usain Bolt set a new world record of 19.30 seconds in the Men’s 200m final to take the gold medal in this event on August 20 at the Beijing 2008 Olympic...

Perched on a stool beside a roadside fruit stand piled high with melons and pears in farming country north of Shanghai, Meng Zhoucui conceded she’s not a big...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 hit the border between China and Myanmar early on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.

Former U.S. Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, founder of a group of athletes called Team Darfur, had a visa for China revoked shortly before he was to embark for Beijing...

The Beijing Olympics have left the world’s human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and...