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Photo: This photo taken in 2004 shows Xu Xiaodi - then aged 67 - posing for a photo with his granddaughter as other children play in the yard of his home in the village of Zhongfen in East China's Anhui province. Most of the local young people left the village to work in the cities, leaving a population of elderly and children.

Bilingual: The Duchess of Cambridge apologized for leaving her "noisy" son, Prince George, behind as she was given cuddly toys and clothes for him on her first walkabout on a tour of New Zealand. A crowd of 5,000 people turned out to cheer the Duchess and the Duke of Cambridge as they visited Blenheim on New Zealand's South Island.