Haze blankets Shanghai

Woman wear face masks on the Bund in front of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower during a hazy day in downtown Shanghai January 26, 2015. China's pollution crisis has inspired an environmental regulator in a smog-blanketed northern province to write a novel whose extracts have gone viral online, spurring plans for two more books. "Smog Is Coming", published last June, touches on fraud and bureaucracy and their impact on air pollution, with online excerpts having received tens of millions of pageviews. [Photo/Agencies]