China accuses the US of "serious provocation" after it flew B-52 bombers near one of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Cars have been forced off the road and factories are closed in Beijing on Saturday after the city was once again blanketed by hazardous smog.

Beijing authorities have issued a second pollution "red alert", little more than a week after its first ever such warning.

Lionel Messi will miss Barcelona's Club World Cup semifinal with Guangzhou Evergrande due to renal colic, the club has announced.

China has summoned a senior US envoy in protest after Washington announced it would sell two warships to Taiwan.

Every nation should have independent authority over its own Internet, Chinese President Xi Jinping says, telling a government-organised conference that "freedom and order" are both necessary in cyberspace.

A restaurant in eastern China has been caught charging customers an "air cleaning fee" on top of their food bills.

Twitter has sent warnings to a number of users that their accounts may have been hacked by "state-sponsored actors".

James Hansen, the former Nasa scientist, considered the father of global awareness of climate change, says the Paris climate talks is 'a fraud'.

One of China's richest men, Guo Guangchang, has been detained by police.

A UN watchdog has urged China to end the rampant use of torture in its prisons and close all secret jails.

Schools in Beijing are closed and outdoor construction halted as the Chinese capital's first ever pollution "red alert"red alert" came into effect.

China announces $60bn (£40bn) of assistance and loans for Africa to help with the development of the continent.

Schools in the Chinese capital Beijing are ordered to keep children indoors amid extremely high levels of air pollution.

Discarded end-of-life electronic and electrical devices, or e-waste, are the fastest growing waste stream in the world.

India will urge rich nations to deliver "climate justice" for developing countries at a major environmental conference in Paris later this month, the environment minister of the country says in an interview with AFP.

Chinese police kill 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China - including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said on Wednesday.

Japan's economy slid back into recession in July-September as uncertainty over the overseas outlook hurt business investment.

A landslide engulfs homes in China kills at least 16 people, with 21 still missing, as heavy rains brought misery across a swathe of the country.