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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Janet Yellen's first trip to China as U.S. Treasury Secretary will focus on recalibrating ties

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese banking shares listed in Hong Kong tumbled on Wednesday after Goldman Sachs downgraded top lenders including Agricultural

Fighting between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the government is due to end on Thursday.

Scientists have found an explanation for a 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean. A gravity hole is an area where gravitational pull is low, causing the seafloor to sink. Deep beneath the ocean, there is one that is three million square kilometers in size and previously it has confused scientists. Now two researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Debanjan Pal and Attreyee Ghosh, think they have solved the mystery. More than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) beneath Earth's crust, they found cold, dense remnants of an ancient ocean plunged into a 'slab graveyard' beneath Africa some 30 million years ago, stirring up hot molten rock. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Pal and Ghosh retraced the formation of the massive geoid by modeling how tectonic plates skimmed over Earth's mantle for the past 140 million years. They ran simulations and compared the shape of the oceanic low those models predicted with observations of the dent itself. The models that reproduced the Indian Ocean geoid low in its current form all had one thing in common: plumes of hot, low-density magma wafting up beneath the low. These plumes, as well as a distinctive mantle structure, are what created the geoid low; if they rise high enough, Pal and Ghosh reckon. "In short, our results suggest that to match the [shape and amplitude of the] observed geoid low, plumes need to be buoyant enough to come up to mid-mantle depths," the pair wrote. The first of these plumes appeared about 20 million years ago, to the south of the Indian Ocean geoid low, and around 10 million years after the old Tethys Sea sank into the lower mantle. As the plumes spread beneath the lithosphere and inched towards the Indian peninsula, the low intensified. But more research needs to be done to work out what is really going on as not all scientists are convinced. Science is crazy. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

The presidential candidate for Taiwan’s ruling party vowed to protect the status quo with China if elected, comments

Seven people have been shot in Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Police Department said early Wednesday.

LONDON The UK Health Security Agency was set up with financial controls that were so weak parliament cannot

The Chinese government has postponed a trip to Beijing by Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief,

By Georgina Lee HONG KONG The yuan has lost nearly 5% of its value against the dollar this

Arsenal and West Ham have agreed the details of Declan Rice's £105m move. The 24-year-old will undergo a medical before joining the Gunners on a long-term contract.

Torrential downpours and flooding have killed at least 15 people and four others remain missing in Chongqing, southwest China, state-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local authorities.

While inflation has peaked in Singapore and growth prospects have dimmed, authorities aren’t shifting to pro-growth mode just