The gates to J.K. Rowling's wizarding world are set to reopen with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but the jury is still out on whether the five-movie spinoff will conjure up the magic that turned Harry Potter into a global entertainment phenomenon.
As an action star, Jackie Chan never expected to get an Oscar.
Walking along Karl Marx Alley in Berlin, a first-time visitor to the city from Beijing may feel a strange sense of familiarity. The buildings, built in Soviet style but with modern facades and the broad roads clearly remind one of Beijing's streets and its architecture.
Switzerland-born Eva Luedi Kong appeared with a glass bottle of Chinese wolfberry tea at her book launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair in late October.
The countryside is as picturesque as the culture is mysterious. For many tourists, "Shangri-La" is a synonym for heaven on Earth.
At the top of Vietnam's Fansipan Mountain, throngs of giddy tourists wielding selfie sticks jostle for a photo op on the once-remote peak in the Sapa region, famed for its breathtaking views across undulating rice terraces.
In Yushu, Northwest China's Qinghai province, ecological protection has entered policy planning, including on poverty reduction.
The late author Qian Zhongshu is best known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged.
Almost a third fewer women than men in the world's poorest countries are connected to the internet and the gap is set to widen, limiting access to life-changing opportunities, an anti-poverty group said on Tuesday.
The art market in China has been cooling over the past three years, generating fewer records and a less competitive air in the salesroom.
At 89, American figurative artist Alex Katz is active and working. He paints everyday in his home-studio, the top floor of an artists' cooperative building in SoHo, New York, where he moved in 1968.
Zheng Xianchao doesn't look like a kidnapper, but his tied-up "victims" might tell you otherwise.
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