Senator Susan Lee and Delegate Clarence Lam, two Democrats, were sworn in to four-year terms in the state's 435th general assembly Wednesday afternoon in Maryland's State House in Annapolis
We talk to people of different ethnicities and nationalities living in Kashgar allowing them to share their lives in the city.
Xu Li (an alias), who suffers from autism-related mental impairment, poses with his work at Nanjing Tiancheng Art Center in Nanjing, capital of south China's Jiangsu province. The center is the first nonprofit organization subsidized by the government to help people with mental illness be accepted by society.
Beijing on Wednesday saw its first snow this winter while the city was enveloped by heavy smog.
The North American International Auto Show begins this week in Detroit with media and industry previews. It opens to the public Jan 17.
Here is the look at some of the creative photographs voted as the world's best wedding snaps from the last year.
The No Pants Subway Ride that swept western countries has inspired Chinese girls to create a "cooler" version. During a commercial promotion at a ski resort in Xuzhou city of East China's Jiangsu province on Tuesday, 20 models got their legs out.
Firefighters were called to rescue a cow after it had fallen in and had to use a crane to hoist it out.
Beijing's winter is cold in the eye-watering, cheek-tightening, nose-running sense of the word. Yet, every year dozens of senior residents brave the big freeze to strip off and swim in the icy waters of the city's lakes and outdoor pools. Here, a group of winter swimming enthusiasts, most of whom are elderly, stand at the half-frozen Houhai Lake with a temperature of around 2o Celsius, Jan 12.
As in China, many people in South Korea have to queue overnight for train tickets released ahead of the Lunar New Year festival.
Guo Xiangge operates a laptop at her home in Linyi county, Yuncheng city in North China's Shanxi province. Born with cerebral palsy, Guo can neither speak nor control her movements.
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