MEXICO CITY - Hour after hour, Mexicans were transfixed by dramatic efforts to reach a young girl thought buried in the rubble of a school destroyed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. She reportedly wiggled her fingers, told rescuers her name and said there were others trapped near her. Rescuers called for tubes, pipes and other tools to reach her.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Pyongyang not to go further in a dangerous direction, and said there should be no new nuclear state in either of the Koreas or elsewhere.
At the palace-like Gezira Art Center in downtown Cairo, an Egyptian photographer tells vivid stories about the everyday lives of Chinese people and depicts famous Chinese landmarks and landscapes through the Tales from China photo exhibition.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, appointed on Friday Zhang Xiaoming as director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.
China will strengthen efforts to crack down on crimes that damage cultural heritage sites and supervise local governments' management in the field, the country's top cultural heritage regulator said on Friday.
Xiongan New Area in Hebei province is expected to take off as the country's new growth engine.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that in a complex and volatile world, China is an "anchor of stability".
The speed on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway was increased to 350 kilometers per hour on Thursday, making it again among the world's fastest train services after the operational limit was reduced six years ago.
President Xi Jinping sent a condolence message to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday over the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that killed at least 237 people and injured more than 1,900 in south-central Mexico this week.
Chinese engineers have refitted a manned utility aircraft into the world's first large transport drone for one of the nation's largest express delivery companies, according to a leading designer involved in the project.
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