A prolonged housing crash, sluggish consumer spending and plunging investment have left China dependent on exports to keep the economy growing.
The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry back the first samples from the Martian system.
Exports have helped offset weak spending at home, but trade tensions and AI doubts cloud its outlook.
The announcement comes as Anthropic lays the ground for a blockbuster stock market listing.
The BBC is in central Kalimantan, where a toxic haze fuelled by wildfires is choking millions of residents.
Antisocial behaviour on buses in England could lead to fines while a new campaign is also being launched for trains. A national campaign asking rail passengers "share the carriage, not the noise" is being launched.
Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) forecast a net income of up to US$19.8 billion for the first nine months of 2026, marking a dramatic swing from a loss a year ago, as the domestic champion cashed in on artificial intelligence-driven demand while aggressively challenging global rivals including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Meanwhile, Zhu Yiming, chairman of the Hefei-based memory giant, proposed to buy back 1 billion (US$149.56 million) to 2 billion yuan of...
The boss of one of Ukraine's biggest steel companies says the country has been "bundled together" in measures aimed at curbing cheap imports.
Trading standards officers say AI is "super-charging" existing scams through clones and fake websites.