Scientists have compiled the most comprehensive bird "family tree" ever made, using genetic data from 48 species to trace how modern bird lineages arose and flourished after the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs.
In her grievance form submitted to then-Nanjing mayor Ma Chaojun during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), the 80-year-old widow recalled how Japanese soldiers cleaved her granddaughter's skull with a bayonet and killed four other family members.
Eight leading academics are to take up posts as senior officials in major government departments and a State-owned enterprise in Beijing this month.
An increasing number of female students at Zhengzhou University in Henan province are taking judo as an elective.
China now has about 3 million cases of syphilis, and incidents of the sexually transmitted disease are on the rise, health experts warn.
News of firefighters rescuing an abandoned newborn from a toilet in North west China's Shaanxi province is making headlines.
A man in Wangcang county returned a cellphone he found after being persuaded to do so by police, Western China Metropolis Daily reported on Thursday.
Public finance will improve the livelihoods of impoverished people, and the fund has made an innovative step in the country's poverty relief work."
More than 84,000 drug criminals in China were sentenced in the first 10 months of 2014, the country's Supreme People's Court said on Thursday.
Photo: A worker at a factory in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, prepares a bamboo framework that will eventually become a lion's head last week. It is the first step in creating a figure for the traditional lion dance.
The top prosecuting department is investigating another provincial-level official for corruption, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday.
The People's Liberation Army, in a rare use of condemnatory words, accused an expelled top general of being a "double-dealer", and urged all servicemen to be honest and realize the harm caused by corruption.
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