Apple said its iCloud server has been the target of "intermittent" attacks, after a security blog said Chinese authorities had been trying to hack into the system.
Dutch electronics giant Philips posted a 103-million-euro net loss on third-quarter earnings, blaming a patent lawsuit and ever-slowing markets in China and Russia.
Vice-Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan said that Kazakhstan was planning to use a mixed model of financial management should it be granted the right to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.
US Secretary of State John Kerry wined and dined a top Chinese official as Washington and Beijing grapple with a number of bilateral differences and global issues.
Hong Kong's justice chief insisted that any prosecution of plainclothes officers who were filmed beating a handcuffed protester would be handled impartially.
More than 82 million people in China still live on less than about $1 a day, despite a decades-long boom that made it the world's second-largest economy.
By 2024, more than half of summers in eastern China will be as hot as in 2013, when the region was hit by a record-busting heatwave and devastating drought.
Chinese Prime Minister arrived in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin as Russia is struggling with its most pronounced isolation since the end of the Cold War.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters have an "almost zero chance" of changing Beijing's stance and securing free elections despite more than two weeks of rallies.