An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted Southwest China's Yunnan province at 11:21 am Tuesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Louisiana state agencies have spent more than $100 million to deal with Hurricane Isaac and the costs are expected to rise, a local news website said Thursday.
The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting this weekend in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok has put drawing up a list of environmentally friendly goods on its agenda.
Authorities are continuing to investigate whether dozens of children in central China were used as test subjects in a US-China joint research project that included genetically modified rice.