China firmly opposes ivory smuggling and will continue to work with the international community to protect wildlife, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
US authorities put a shopping mall in New Jersey on lockdown Monday night after shots were heard and a gunman was spotted.
US Secretary of State John Kerry denied on Monday reports of tensions between the United States and Saudi Arabia amid current crises in the region.
More than 45,000 competed in the event which winds its way through the five New York City boroughs finishing in Central Park.
One of China's biggest bottled-water producers Nongfu Spring has filed complaints to the top media regulator, accusing a Beijing newspaper of deliberately defaming the company.
Olympic swimming champion and world record holder Sun Yang has been given a seven-day administrative detention for driving without a license, after he was involved in a minor collision with a bus on Sunday.
Three Chinese experts on Monday began training in The Hague on how to verify the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons.
A trash man soared as an online celebrity as a video of him talking to foreigners in fluent English, and eagerly teaching pedestrians oral English.
Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi arrived at a Cairo police academy where his trial for incitement of violence and murder will begin shortly.
The moon blocks the sun seconds before a total solar eclipse at the remote Sibiloi National Park on the shore of Lake Turkana, Kenya, November 3, 2013.
Chinese film director Feng Xiaogang left his handprint in cement outside the TCL Chinese Theatre on Friday as groups of Chinese onlookers snapped photos of entertainment stars' names on the Avenue of Stars.