The top aide to former Chinese president Hu Jintao has been placed under investigation for disciplinary violations, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

A former top general in China has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party to face bribery charges, becoming the most senior figure ensnared in an anti-corruption crackdown.

A former top general in China has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party to face bribery charges, becoming the most senior figure ensnared in an anti-corruption crackdown.

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The death toll from a horrific rampage by a knife-wielding mob at a railway station has risen to 33 as China blamed ethnic separatists for the “terrorist attack”.

A court has dismissed ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai’s appeal against his conviction and life sentence for corruption and abuse of power in one of the country’s most politically-charged trials in decades.

A Chinese court has convicted fallen politician Bo Xilai of corruption and sentenced him to life in prison, capping one of the country’s most lurid political scandals in decades.

One Night in Winter

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai told a court his wife stole government funds without his involvement and revealed how the couple became estranged after he had been unfaithful, offering a glimpse in his politically charged trial of the unraveling of one of China’s elite families.

Greed and betrayal in one of China’s elite families went on display today when prosecutors in the corruption trial of disgraced politician Bo Xilai released testimony from his wife on a businessman’s gifts to the family, including a French villa and plane tickets to three continents.

China’s incoming president, Xi Jinping, has warned Communist Party officials about the need to fight corruption or risk ruining the country.

Asset disclosure for Chinese officials is likely to be slowly phased in over time, a senior Communist Party leader said as the government grapples with the fraught task of rooting out corruption.

Hundreds of Tibetans demonstrated in a western China town today, calling for freedom from Chinese rule.

Activists, academics and dissidents are questioning China’s purge of Bo Xilai, demanding the rule of law be followed allowing the disgraced leader to defend himself.

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and will face corruption and other criminal charges.

China’s president-in-waiting Xi Jinping has not been seen in public for more than a week, prompting a wave of speculation on the reason for his absence.

Sergei Sokolov, the Soviet defence minister fired by the Politburo after a German teenager landed his plane on Moscow’s Red Square in the 1980s, has died.

Chinese leaders may spare a politician’s wife the death penalty for killing British businessman Neil Heywood, fearing it might incite public sympathy, analysts said today.

London is ready.

Chinese prosecutors are charging the wife of former Chinese politician Bo Xilai and a family aide with the murder of a British businessman.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is set to take legal action after claims she worked as $1 million-a-night prostitute for ruling members of the Chinese Communist Party

The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight.

Today, May 1, was, for those of us old enough to remember, one of the great set pieces of the Cold War’s propaganda battles.

The wife of a senior Communist Party official in China is being held over the murder of a British businessman, state media has reported.

A senior North Korean party official has dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.

The Chinese leadership’s law-and-order chief is warning that China is ill-prepared for social unrest generated by changes in the economy, in the latest sign that the government is worried about the consequences of flagging growth.

Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao has offered his country’s support for Europe and its common currency amid the eurozone’s debt crisis.

China's leadership today called for tighter control over bank lending and other spending next year, a shift in strategy as Beijing fights inflation and tries to guide rapid growth to a sustainable level.

WITH his leather jackets and messy, bleached hair, Julian Assange could be the edgy one in a fashionable indie band. In more ways than one, the WikiLeaks founder is the poster boy for today’s unthinking, whistleblowing brand of newsmaking, which is what currently passes for investigative reporting.

HAVING seen Andy Gray’s unbiased analysis on the box of the traumatic 95th minute equaliser at Sunderland, I had some sympathy with Wenger’s uncontrollable urge to vent his anger at the fourth official.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today crossed a former fortified border to cheers as Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.

TWENTY years ago today, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

Twenty years ago tomorrow, they danced on top of the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

CHINA’S top communist leaders vowed to maintain stability in the west of the country in their first public comments yesterday on the ethnic riots that killed more than 150 people.

President Raul Castro has announced that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997 – a major gathering that could chart the island’s political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone.

The former Formula One racing boss in China has been sentenced to four years in jail for embezzlement, the latest person disgraced in a financial scandal in Shanghai.

President Hu Jintao won a second five-year term as China’s Communist Party chief today, heading a new leadership line-up that features potential successors, yet could invite a divisive battle to succeed him.

China’s politically powerful vice president stepped down today in a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.

CHINA’S vice-president stepped down yesterday in a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.

China’s politically powerful vice president stepped down today in a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.

China’s ruling Communist Party, reeling from a corruption epidemic that has seen senior party chiefs jailed around the country, warned today that the fight against graft was a long way from being solved.

THE Communist party boss of Shanghai has been sacked for corruption, state media said yesterday, toppling the highest leader so far in national party chief Hu Jintao’s drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.

Shanghai’s top leader was today dismissed for alleged corruption, the highest level official to be axed in more than a decade as President Hu Jintao moves to consolidate his power.

From his sickbed, Fidel Castro has set the stage for a more collective style of governance in a country long used to a single strongman, selecting six trusted comrades to run key projects while his younger brother Raul acts as president and head of the Communist Party.