The BRICS countries are considering setting up a foreign-exchange reserve pool.
Five thousand ducks head to a pond for food in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on June 17, 2012.
Duan Wu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year, which is June 23 this year.
3 Chinese astronauts floated into the cabin of an orbiting module Monday, becoming the first group of Chinese to enter an orbiter in space.
China's first manned space docking mission succeeded on Monday as the Shenzhou IX spaceship and Tiangong-1 space lab module joined together.
President Hu Jintao said the world economy, although on the path to recovery, still faces instability and uncertainty. 
China's message: Growth, stability
Children play on a fountain to cool down at a park in Beijing on Sunday. The temperature reached 38 C on Sunday.
Exit polls issued immediately after voting ended in the Greek general election indicated that New Democracy was marginally ahead of anti-bailout party.
President Hu Jintao arrived on Saturday in Mexico for the G20 leadership summit, where he is scheduled to meet United States President Barack Obama.
The draft action plan for the coming Rio+20 of global sustainable development summit remains unfinished as the final preparatory meeting wrapped up.
More than 50 years have passed since the Beatles put out their first records - in Hamburg - but millions of feet are still tapping to their music.
President Hu pledged to further the China-Denmark strategic partnership, and said he believed that Europe would overcome the current debt crisis.
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