An increasing number of African students are choosing universities in China to study medicine.
A pale light seeped through the window of a small room where a man sat at a table next to a curtained-off bed.
Running a marathon takes determination, courage, perseverance. It is an arduous undertaking that requires months of dedicated training. But for some of the runners on the Beijing marathon on Sept 16, they had to overcome challenges far greater than the majority of those they competed against. For 21 of the runners pounding the capital's roads were visually impaired and had to compete "tied" to another runner for guidance.
Over four days in Beijing last year, Taiwan surgeon Chen Chao-long performed 13 liver transplant operations. Each lasted several hours, and he had to survive on just four hours of sleep a night, sometimes less.
While some people around her age are settling into retirement, Chen Xiangmei, one of China's top kidney disease specialists, is working harder than ever to find breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment.
In a traditional red qipao dress and holding a folding fan, Xia Li stole the show on her debut for World Wrestling Entertainment at a tournament in the United States in the summer of 2017.
They say necessity is the mother of invention. But perhaps that should be grandmother.
When Italian sculptor Dionisio Cimarelli arrived in Beijing via the trans-Siberian train at the age of 21, he might have been one of the first foreign artists to visit China after it was opened to the outside world in the mid-1970s.
Artist Chen Dongfan's mission in life is to let more Asian voices be heard through art, so he spent eight days painting an asphalt mural directly onto 445 square meters of Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown.
China launched its reform and opening-up policy in 1978. Fundamental changes have occurred across the country since then. These photos are from an exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing held from Aug 30 to Sept 12, co-hosted by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Photographers Association to commemorate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up.
WASHINGTON - A hearing for US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh devolved into a partisan fistfight on Thursday as Democrats and Republicans and Kavanaugh himself sparred over explosive allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted an acquaintance while both were teenagers.
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