The national governing body for soccer has passed institutional reforms that it hopes will help revitalize the sport in China, after several years of poor performance and corruption scandals.
A gondola approaches a bridge as it glides down a canal in this 3D drawing by Muhammad Ejleh, a 20-year-old artist and architecture student from Syria. He creates his drawings through a painstaking process that frees his images from the constraints of 2D paper.
Anti-abortion protesters take part in March for Life on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2014.
A group of battleships from the PLA navy's South Sea Fleet is performing a long-distance training mission and has patrolled the Xisha Islands.
Chunyun, the 40-day travel period around the Chinese New Year, started on Jan 16. About 3.62 billion passenger trips will be made during the travel period. It's a long journey, but it seems everyone on the road home is managing to beat back fatigue in their own way.
Heavy snow swept through East Coast of the United States Tuesday, forcing more than 2,000 flights to be canceled.
Oil supply from Russia offers China more import sources and enhances the nation's energy security.
Japanese fishermen drove a large group of dolphins into the shallows and killed at least 30 on Tuesday.
A photography exhibition featuring water-themed images by Henry Gan, an American-Chinese advertising photographer who has been in the industry for two decades, has ended its tour in Beijing and will move on to Shanghai in April, and then to Chengdu before it goes to Paris and Tokyo later this year.
US President Barack Obama smiles as he and his daughter Sasha fill burritos as they volunteer at the DC Central Kitchen charity in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, in Washington, January 20, 2014.
Models present creations by designers Yassen Samouilov and Livia Stoianova as part of their Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014 fashion show for On Aura Tout Vu in Paris Jan 20, 2014.