SWEDEN Goran Hansson （center）， Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences， announces the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Stockholm on October 9. The prize has been awarded to John B.
Goran Hansson （center）， Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences， announces the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Stockholm on October 9. The prize has been awarded to John B. Goodenough， M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries
INDONESIA
President Joko Widodo reviews troops in Jakarta on October 5 during celebrations marking the 74th anniversary of the establishment of the Indonesian Armed Forces
IRAQ
Anti-government protesters gather in eastern Baghdad on October 5. The death toll during the protests in the capital and other Iraqi cities had risen to 104， with more than 6，000 people wounded， by that day
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
People visit the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition in Dubai on October 6. It is the largest IT exhibition and conference in the Middle East
PORTUGAL
Prime Minister Antonio Costa greets his supporters in Lisbon on October 7 after his Socialist Party won the national election by garnering 36.7 percent of the votes
FRANCE
Soldiers stand guard near the site of a knife attack in Paris on October 3. At least four police officers were killed at the city’s police headquarters
The 2019 World Economic Outlook re- leased by the International Monetary Fund （IMF） on April 9 forecasts a decline in growth this year for 70 percent of the global economy amid trade tensions and fi n
A U.S. Broadway show highlighting the transforming power of music struck the right chord during its premiere in China. School of Rock， a kind of Sound of Music story based in a classroom， had its fir
After joining China Mobile as an Internet of Things （IoT） engineer in 2010， Chen Fang found that the Machine-to-Machine Center where he worked had only about a dozen employees. Now， the number stands
The China Pavilion at the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition in Yanqing District on October 6. The expo closed on October 9， hailed as an overwhelming success. Since the opening in A
Scenes from daily life fl ow on a 20-me- ter-high screen where the audience witnesses how they are transformed into the square characters of Chinese calligraphy. This is Chinese artist Xu Bing’s anim
When Wang Xiaobo （1952-97） wrote about his dream of visiting an Egyptian desert in his novella The Silver Age in the 1990s， the Chinese writer perhaps did not imagine he would become a rage in that co
Over the past seven decades， diplomatic ties between China and Russia have gone through an extraordinary journey. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union， China-Russia relations have made a smoo
Xiao Liwu enjoys bamboo at the Qingchengshan Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas in Dujiangyan， southwest China’s Sichuan Province， on May 16. The 6-year-old giant pan
Laksa， a noodle dish popular in Malaysia and Singapore on display at the Asian Cuisine Festival in Beijing in mid-May， epitomizes the infl uence of cultural exchanges： the dish is made with herbs and
In his remarks at the opening ceremony of the 11th Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council， U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chided China for its participation in Arctic affairs， claiming that Ch
