titlepic - Chinadaily.com.cn

titlepic

Photo

[2015-02-18 08:06]

Revelers in traditional Chinese opera costumes take part in a Spring Festival parade in Paris in February last year. Hu Wei / For China Daily

President Xi Jinping gives Spring Festival greetings to residents as he inspects the city wall in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on Sunday night. Xi visited the province from Friday to Monday. Li Xueren / Xinhua

Photo

[2015-02-16 07:57]

Revelers of the VaiVai samba school perform during the second night of the carnival parade at the Anhembi Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. Nelson Almeida / Agence France-Presse

Photo

[2015-02-14 08:15]

Premier Li Keqiang buys fried sticky rice with a sweet coating at a market in Liping county in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province on Friday. Liu Zhen / China News Service

Photo

[2015-02-13 08:00]

From left: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pose in Minsk on Wednesday during a meeting aimed at halting a 10-month war in Ukraine where dozens have died in the latest fighting. Grigory Dukor / Agence France-Presse

Photo

[2015-02-12 07:41]

An employee works on a high-speed train model CRH380B at a final assembly line of China CNR's Tangshan railway vehicle factory in Tangshan, Hebei province, on Wednesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

Photo

[2015-02-11 07:58]

Meeting of minds
Premier Li Keqiang chats with Canadian educator Isabel Crook at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday after a meeting with more than 60 foreign experts. Crook, who celebrated her 100th birthday in December and has devoted most of her life to English-language teaching in China, has attended many meetings with Chinese leaders. Story >p3 Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

Photo

[2015-02-10 07:58]

British soul singer Sam Smith clutches his awards for Best New Artist, Best Pop/Vocal Album for in the Lonely Hour and Song of the Year and Record of the Year for StayWithMe, at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Mike Blake / Reuters

Photo

[2015-02-09 07:49]

Michael Blumenthal, former treasury secretary of the United States, tries to identify old friends in pictures of Jewish refugees at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Saturday. The 89-year-old arrived in Shanghai in 1939 with his parents and older sister, having fled from Germany where life became impossible for Jews. He stayed in the metropolis for eight years. Lai Xinlin / for China Daily

Photo

[2015-02-07 08:13]

Pictures of Jordan's King Abdullah and slain pilot Muath alKasaesbeh are held by protesters as they chant slogans at a rally in Amman on Thursday to show their loyalty to the monarch and opposition to the Islamic State. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters

Photo

[2015-02-06 07:28]

Victims' relatives pray on Thursday at the scene of an air crash in Taipei, Taiwan, the previous day that left dozens dead. A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane with 58 people aboard clipped an overpass shortly after takeoff before crashing into the Keelung River. AP

Photo

[2015-02-05 07:43]

Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a river in Taipei on Wednesday. Photos by Pichi Chuang / Reuters and Xinhua