The Chinese mainland fell 10 places to 47th in a ranking of 70 countries compiled by EF Education First, which based its rankings on test data from more than 900,000 adults taking online tests. In Asia, it ranked at 11th, while Singapore ranked first.
The East Coast of the United States greeted its first Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) fleet for a port call visit on Tuesday morning.
The winners of "The power of peace - A new generation of the most lovely men" photography collection activity for competition have been announced in Beijing recently.
It's called Harmonious Mission 2015 and it just struck a chord in California.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa that she would like to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour from the current $7.25.
China's huge online shopping festival, Singles Day, is Wednesday, and authorities have found that the amount of contraband found in cross-border online shopping shipments to Beijing in October rose as much as three times from the previous month.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Vietnam from Nov 5-6, the first by China's top leader in a decade, let's take a look at earlier high-level exchanges.
Israeli photographer Maria Rosenblatt produced a series of adorable works styling pet animals to look like aristocrats, which have gone viral online.
A photograph portraying Chinese fishermen basking in the mist on a river near Lishui, taken by Vladimir Proshin was awarded the top prize of Siena International Photography Awards.
Singapore remains the easiest place to do business, while developing countries stepped up their pace of business-friendly reforms in the past year, according to World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report, which covers 189 economies.
President Xi Jinping urged China and the US on Monday to "have a correct understanding of each other's strategic intentions".