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.
WELLINGTON - All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane's crash landing on a Pacific lagoon on Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local boats that came to the rescue in the Micronesia archipelago.
UNITED NATIONS - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the US government Thursday, refusing to accept the United States as the sole mediator in the Middle East conflict, a day after US President Donald Trump promised a "very fair" peace plan.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was scheduled to hosts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Berlin on Friday to try to repair badly frayed ties.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Tesla CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud, alleging he misled investors last month in tweets about taking the company private. Musk tweeted on Aug 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. The SEC said Musk's statements on Twitter were "false and misleading" and that he had never discussed the plans with company officials or potential funders.
SYDNEY - A row is raging over Australia's warming-damaged Great Barrier Reef, with firms worried that scientists' apocalyptic warnings are scaring visitors out of the water.
PARIS - It may have been a long time coming, but eco-fashion is no longer a hippie pipe dream.
NEW DELHI - Hit hard by steep hike in fuel prices, urban residents in India are trying all cost-effective measures to tackle commuting. The most popular among them has been to shun the use of private cars and resort to public transport or carpooling.
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Volunteers looking for poachers that target migrating birds are on patrol in several Mediterranean countries, including Malta, Lebanon and Cyprus.
ZEERIJP, Netherlands - The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean - but when they started making their own earthquakes, it proved a step too far.
NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to start trade talks in an arrangement that, for now, protects Japanese automakers from further tariffs, seen as a major threat to the export-dependent economy.
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