United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker began her two-day visit to Cuba with a tour of the country's first special economic zone on Tuesday.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that 58 Taliban militants have been killed in cleanup operations in 10 out of the country's 34 provinces.
On the long train ride between Beijing and the southern city of Nanning, some Chinese war veterans sat and reminisced.
Smartphones and tablet computers may have revolutionized language learning in the digital age, but many people still prefer the old-fashioned way of honing their communication skills - English corners.
Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai.
After cutting a palm leaf into three pieces and knotting them together, Hu Licheng quickly weaved the stomach of a cricket. "Hold this for me," he said as he handed the partly-finished handicraft to a boy near the gate of Jing'an Park in Shanghai. He then made the cricket's head and wings.
After his successful debut as spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Qian was both focused and modest: "I expect to undertake this job successfully, with no effort spared, and I hope I will not bring disgrace to this mission."
Fu Yiqing's life has many facets. She runs a successful interior decoration business, and travels to scores of countries to learn about local handicraft skills. Her installation art works have drawn huge crowds and more than 90,000 saw her work at the capital's China World Center last month.
Move over Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Seoul is emerging as Asia's new fashion showcase, with the world's top luxury firms seeking to cash in on the regional trend-setting popularity of South Korean pop culture.
At the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, an Elvis impersonator in a black jumpsuit croons as a couple walks down the aisle. Pastor Jean-Claude Chevalme pronounces them man and wife. All in 10 minutes flat.
As I prepared to fly to central Europe recently there was a wonderful, vivid picture I could not expel from my mind.
In April, when a sandstorm-the strongest in more than a decade in China-raged through the country's northern parts, at least two men said they felt little of it.
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