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The most notorious case in the UK

[2013-12-18 08:16]

In 1993, 2-year-old James Patrick Bulger from Merseyside, England, was murdered on Feb 12.

Taiyuan's task to be modern metro area

[2013-12-13 06:59]

Shanxi capital makes housing, road and rail improvements

For ex-cons, hope remains imprisoned in life after release

[2013-12-12 08:15]

A year after he was released from prison, Zhou Liguo was at his lowest ebb. "Things were too bitter to bear. I had no family support, and no one wanted to help me," said the 42-year-old, who was released in 2009 after serving five years for causing intentional bodily harm.

Going straight

[2013-12-12 08:15]

He lives with his wife, daughter and son in Rongchang, Chongqing municipality.

Doors slam shut on 're-education' system

[2013-12-11 07:20]

One of the most startling pieces of news to emerge from the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee in November was the decision to abolish the long-standing, controversial correction system known as "re-education through labor", or laojiao.

'Can we survive after surviving?'

[2013-12-10 06:39]

Amonth after Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines causing more than 5,000 deaths, Alipio Daga Jr, a 45-year-old construction worker in Palo, said the biggest problems facing the survivors are disease and a lack of clean drinking water.

Looking for lost hope in a devastated community

[2013-12-10 06:39]

When the ambulance arrived, two medical staff jumped out and ran into the Peace Ark field hospital holding two boys in their arms. The boys had been found in a swollen river. One was 7 years old, the other 6.

Cities hit hard by smog

[2013-12-09 07:19]

China's most developed regions were attacked by smog over the weekend.

Not really secret, but very effective

[2013-12-09 07:19]

I was overjoyed to hear I would be allowed to join an official "secret inspection" team. The idea was quite glamorous: A world of cloak and daggers and undercover James Bond-like activity. It didn't even occur to me that this once-in-a-lifetime game of shadows would end up being so humdrum and even monotonous.

Against a sea of troubles

[2013-12-06 07:17]

It was 8 pm in Tacloban. An ambulance screeched to a halt, its lights flashing, and a man was carried out on a stretcher. His face and chest were covered with blood.

Little creatures, big problems

[2013-12-06 07:17]

It's not a good idea to take a walk around the field hospital at night. The excess water brought by the typhoon has turned the farmland around the hospital into a swamp. The cracked sidewalks of the only passable road are littered with holes, some so deep that they are death traps. Snakes, toads and other mysterious creatures startled by my flashlight, slithered, hopped or scurried away around my feet.

Beyond 'panda diplomacy'

[2013-12-05 07:11]

The world loves pandas. The enigmatic, retiring beasts have become a global symbol of international friendship since China first began sending them as gifts to foreign countries in the 1950s.