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Checking Out The New Fads

[2017-09-15 08:02]

New York Fashion Week wrapped up on Wednesday in an explosion of glowing colors, greater inroads into diversity, designers still pondering the point of the runway and younger talent given a chance to shine.

From refugee camp to runway, model breaks barriers

[2017-09-15 08:02]

Roughly one year ago, Denise Wallace, the executive co-director of the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, received a phone call from 19-year-old Halima Aden asking if she could compete in the contest wearing her hijab.

Toward Innovation

[2017-09-15 08:02]

Jay Siegel's daily tasks are manifold - from the smallest details to the grandest projects. The scientist from the United States has worked on molecular design, chemical synthesis and structural analysis, the three main components of modern stereochemistry.

Picasso portrait of muse up for sale

[2017-09-15 08:02]

LONDON - A late Picasso portrait of his paramour Jacqueline Roque is going up for auction for the first time, with an estimated price of up to $30 million, Christie's auction house said on Wednesday. Christie's will offer Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) - Crouching Woman (Jacqueline) - at a Nov 13 sale in New York.

Couple sow seeds of success in Tibet county

[2017-09-15 08:02]

Nearly two decades ago, Zhang Jiming was still a farmer in a village in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. He never thought he would do anything else except tend to his crops, or travel anywhere too far from his fields.

Rare Glimpse Of A Masterpiece

[2017-09-14 07:15]

An 18-year-old genius left the world with a work that has had resonance for the past nine centuries. Indisputably, A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, the only surviving work from Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter Wang Ximeng, is one of the most important in China's fine art history.

Show traces influence of Zhao Mengfu on Chinese painting and calligraphy

[2017-09-14 07:15]

Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), who was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) royal, made a controversial move to switch loyalties to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). But that is not his claim to fame.

Heroes Coming

[2017-09-14 07:15]

When director Guan Hu announced that his latest movie, Ba Bai (Eight Hundred Heroes), will kick off shooting in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Saturday, he was with Hollywood talent working on it.

Working to retain the charms of an old street

[2017-09-14 07:15]

When Cao Yongkang from Shanghai Jiaotong University first visited an old street in Gyalze county of the Tibet autonomous region in 2013, he was thrilled.

Marathon bombing survivor on screen

[2017-09-14 07:15]

BOSTON - A film chronicling the story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman premiered in the United States on Tuesday at the hospital where he and others who were injured in the 2013 deadly attack were treated. Dozens of people attended the screening of Stronger at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.

Layers of success

[2017-09-13 08:23]

For more than a decade, Chinese physicist Zhang Yuanbo has been hunting for 2-D material in our 3-D world.

China, UK in partnership on space education

[2017-09-13 08:23]

EDINBURGH - Leading space scientists from Britain and China signed a partnership agreement early this month to promote and strengthen both sides' space education and space-culture activities.