The fire, which erupted late Monday in a high-rise commercial building in downtown Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has been put out.
Family members wave goodbye to the sailors and Chinese naval officers who have been sent out to the Gulf of Aden for the anti-piracy mission in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, Feb 21, 2011.
A pair of giant pandas left their home in Southwest China's Sichuan province Monday for a 10-year stay in Japan, under an agreement on joint research on the rare species.
Ukraine, along with many former Soviet states, traditionally celebrates the Defender of the Fatherland Day on Feb 23. The battle was a re-enactment of one in Feb 1944, during World War Two against Nazi Germany.
Bernhard Arp Sindberg helped to save nearly 20,000 Chinese in Nanjing Massacre. "To us Chinese people, especially the people in Nanjing, he is a friend in need and a friend indeed."
Blake Griffin soared over an automobile and into a new stratosphere on Saturday with an awe-inspiring performance to win the NBA's slam dunk contest.
Visitors in the mountainous Wolong Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Sichuan province were so amused to see people carrying a panda cub in a basket on Sunday morning that they couldn't stop taking pictures.
The Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail service provides a 4-hour link between the twin cosmopolitan cities in China once fully operational late 2011.
Snapshot photos capture the moments of events happened all around the world during the past 24 hours of Feb 19.
A new wave of post-holiday travel rush came to China's railway system.
Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin inspect Olympic preparations.
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