Vietnam's second satellite, the VINASAT-2, roared off the launch pad aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 22:13 GMT Tuesday from Guiana Space Center at the European Spaceport in Kourou.
US first lady Michelle Obama (C) plays host to a Let's Move! soccer event with students from across the country and members of the reigning Major League Soccer champion LA Galaxy including David Beckham, in the state dining room at the White House in Washington, May 15, 2012.
Germany and France would make joint effort to reinvigorate economic growth in the eurozone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.
Chinese applicants began to receive new digitized passports on Tuesday.
Harvard to collaborate in China on program to train psychiatrists.
A Soyuz spaceship carrying two Russians and one American astronaut blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after more than a month's delay over a problem with the hull of the Russian-built capsule.
Shadow puppetry performer Zhou Wei prepares the shadow puppet for the upcoming performance, Shanghai, May 14, 2012.
Students play games while studying for the National College Entrance Exam at a senior high school in Nanchong, Sichuan province on May 14, 2012.
At 93 years old, Porchon-Lynch was named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records.
Torrential downpours have ravaged parts of southern China this month, triggering floods, damaging buildings and farmland and claiming tens of lives so far.
China on Monday again urged the Philippines to avoid actions that may increase tensions in the dispute over Huangyan Island, which is irrelevant to the upcoming routine fishing ban in northern parts of the South China Sea.
Sixteen medical and emergency relief workers from national and regional departments of Indonesia started a five-day training course in an emergency company in Beijing on Monday to enhance their rescue skills.
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