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Never too old to learn; Nepal's 68-year-old student

[2016-06-15 09:24]

Nepalese grandfather Durga Kami brushes his bushy white beard, puts on his school uniform and, with the aid of his walking stick, trudges for over an hour to class for another day of learning.

Tourists visit beer museum in E China's Qingdao

[2016-06-15 11:17]

Tourists visit a beer museum in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, June 14, 2016. Tourist volume of the city's beer industry tourism projects reached 4.5 million in 2015.

Turning straw to gold: folk artist's straw pyrography

[2016-06-14 10:58]

Folk artist Guo Shunling has created a new art form, "straw pyrography", which fuses straw painting with traditional pyrography.

People in shock after Florida nightclub shooting

[2016-06-13 07:37]

People in shock after Florida nightclub shooting

Shanghai Disneyland all set for official opening on Thursday

[2016-06-12 11:04]

Shanghai Disneyland Park, Walt Disney's sixth theme park in the world and its first on the Chinese mainland, wrapped up its trial operation on June 11, 2016, five days before its official opening on Thursday.

British pageantry on parade for Queen's official birthday

[2016-06-11 21:18]

All the pomp and pageantry of Britain was on display today for the annual ceremony of Trooping the Colour, a parade in central London held each year to honor the monarch’s official birthday, timed to coincide with the better weather of May and June. This monarch’s real birthday falls on April 21, the date on which she was born in 1926.

Carrying bricks to selling carrots: Life of child laborers

[2016-06-12 08:21]

There are 168 million child laborers across the globe, with 45 percent of them working in Asia-Pacific. According to the International Labor Organization, the children are largely employed in the rural and informal economy, in areas where trade unions and employers’ organizations are often weak or absent, which means they are usually working under difficult or even dangerous conditions. To highlight their plight and raise awareness, the World Day against Child Labor will be marked on June 12.

Graduate revisits same university spot 19 years later

[2016-06-12 10:33]

A graduate from Sichuan Agriculture University in Southwest China's Sichuan province posing at the campus 19 years ago (left) and now. She posted a series of images on Sina Weibo, a popular Twitter-like service, that show her posing at the same spot in the same pose she was photographed nearly two decades ago.

Euro powers land in France for UEFA EURO 2016

[2016-06-08 13:50]

European national soccer teams arrive in France for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2016 championship which starts on June 10.

The most unusualgaokao candidates in 2016

[2016-06-08 12:13]

Every year's gaokao sees many unusual candidates who are not the typical high school seniors.So, who are this year's unusual candidates? Why are they taking the national exam?

Elderly man carries on 1000-year old dragon boat craft

[2016-06-08 11:19]

Ding Fushun, 68, started learning the craft at the age of 16 and has sculptured nearly 80 dragon boat bows in over several decades.

Row your dragon boat, cute pandas in Yunnan!

[2016-06-08 09:08]

Panda He Xing and Nan Nan play with their new toy – a dragon boat made of paper at Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Southwest China's Yunnan province on Monday, to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival that will fall on Thursday.

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