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[2015-01-03 08:06]

Kanye West and Paul McCartney, two legendary performers from different musical traditions, have teamed up in an unlikely collaboration on a new single released on Thursday called Only One.

Beijing Life Through Foreign Eyes

[2015-01-02 09:22]

When you have lived in a place for a long time, subtle changes that occur in your surroundings often escape the eye.

Changchun's skiing success looks set to snowball

[2015-01-01 07:53]

Changchun, the capital city of Northeast China's Jilin province, attracts worldwide attention each winter by hosting the International Vasaloppet Ski Festival.

What they say

[2015-01-01 07:53]

In recent years, there have been an increasing number of ski fields in our province, which is an advantage in developing relevant tourism programs. In the last Winter Olympic games, China won nine medals, five of which were won by athletes from Jilin. The provincial government calls for us to build a snow and ice sport province.

Winter sports heat up in Jilin's capital

[2015-01-01 07:53]

Jilin's provincial capital Changchun is proving the cold is cool and winter sports are hot in China.

Wedding relocated for Obama's golf

[2014-12-31 07:45]

A military couple getting married near US President Barack Obama's vacation spot on Hawaii learned the hard way that the big day rarely goes exactly as planned.

Around the world

[2014-12-31 07:45]

Venezuela's Tourism Ministry denied reports on Monday that the record-breaking Coromoto ice cream store in Merida, which offers 863 flavors, had closed due to lack of milk, the latest quirky twist in the bitter national debate over who is to blame for the nation's economic problems.

Crew 'left passengers in lurch'

[2014-12-31 07:45]

There were no fire alarms at first, no knocks on the door from the crew, just thick, acrid smoke filling cabins and waking passengers on the overnight ferry from Greece to Italy.

UK mulled new chemical arsenal in 1980s

[2014-12-31 07:45]

Newly released official papers show that former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's government considered rebuilding Britain's chemical weapons arsenal in the face of a perceived Soviet threat in the early 1980s.

Arab states back Palestinian call for Israeli pullback in 2017

[2014-12-31 07:45]

Arab UN delegations on Monday endorsed a Palestinian proposal to forge a peace deal with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite fierce Israeli and US opposition.

Some experts doubt DPRK as source of Sony Pictures hack

[2014-12-31 07:45]

Even after Washington pointed the finger at the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures, some experts say the evidence is far from clear cut.

UN approves inquiry panel into fatal crash

[2014-12-31 07:45]

The UN General Assembly voted unanimously on Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961.

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