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Property records give new insights into bin Laden

2011-05-05 09:56

The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden's final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for "an uncle" had become very valuable.

Universiade torch relay hits the road

2011-05-05 06:44

The torch relay for the 26th World University Games kicked off at Peking University on Wednesday, marking the 100-day countdown to the opening of the competition that is also known as the Universiade.

Three-man team to leave for Space Station

2011-05-05 09:11

Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R), US astronaut Michael E. Fossum (L) and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov smile for the camera during a training exercise in the Soyuz capsule simulator in the Russian cosmonaut training centre at Star City outside Moscow May 4, 2011. The three man team is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on June 7.

Japanese monk makes amends in China

2011-05-05 06:31

.Iwata Ryuzo, a 75- year-old Japanese Buddhist monk, repents in Chongqing on May 3, 2011 for the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers who invaded China in World War II and prays for the 12,000 victims who died in the bombing of the city

Delinquent juveniles learn to thank mom

2011-05-04 21:27

Teacher Li Changhong (R) shows delinquenent juveniles how to gesture when singing a song devoted to mother at a juvenile offender correctional center in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, May 4, 2011. Four teachers of a local elementary school visited the center ahead of Mother's Day to communicate with offenders. It was reported that most of delinquenent juveniles committed crimes because a lack of proper education and care of parents.

Snapshots: The world in 24 hours, May 3

2011-05-04 15:52

Snapshots: the world in 24 hours, May 3

Severe spring drought in Central China

2011-05-04 14:53

Central China's Hubei province has been plagued by a lingering spring drought that has impacted grain production and disrupted the area's supply of drinking water.