"King of Hawking" Wang Liyong performs for pupils from Anshandao Primary School, Tianjin, May 8, 2012.
On May 10, 2012, 462 couples got married in a group wedding ceremony in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. It was the seventh group wedding ceremony at Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce company.
This year's Mother's Day is a special one for 40 female prisoners in the women's prison in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality。
A traditional Chinese dragon dance is performed during the Chinese Culture Year in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 10, 2012.
An employee poses with jewels from Lily Safra collection during an auction preview at Christie's in Geneva May 10, 2012.
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team, which includes rover drivers and scientists, test out an engineering model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed "Curiosity", in the desert near Baker, California May 10, 2012.
French "Spiderman" Alain Robert has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe including many of the world's tallest structures, most of which he has scaled using only his bare hands and climbing shoes.
Liang Guanglie wrapped up the first US visit by a Chinese defense minister in nine years.
Africa needs more Chinese investment and aid to help with social development, such as building hospitals, said Alasan Senghore, director of Africa zone at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
China and three of its neighbors will launch a fourth joint patrol on the Mekong River, where 13 Chinese sailors were killed in October, an officer said on Thursday.
China condemned a bomb attack in the vicinity of a convoy of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria.
Britain on Thursday said it would change the type of Lockheed Martin-built Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft it would buy.