Russian Air Force jet fighters perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.
Kim Jong Il passed through Khasan, the border railway station of Russia in the morning of August 20, the official news agency KCNA reported.
An astonishing glacial "palace" discovered by accident four years ago has become a quirky summer tourist attraction in the Zillertal Alps of Austria.
Thangka craftsmen have faithfully re-created Tibetan religious icons for generations, passing down the art from masters to apprentices in a heritage chain that still keeps tight links today.
Three people were killed and 17 others injured, two severely, after a blast ripped through a boiler room in a hospital in northern Chinese city of Changzhi Friday.
Farmer Shu Mansheng builds a flying device in front of his house in Jiangxia District, Wuhan City, Central China's Hubei province, Aug 19, 2011.
Women in traditional costumes dance during a horse race festival held in Damxung, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, August 19, 2011. The seven-day horse race festival, with the history of more than 300 years, is held in Damxung in August each year.
The public continues to question whether the manager of an international charitable schooling project involving at least 1.5 billion yuan ($235 million) is qualified to run the project, showing the public's deepened distrust of unsupervised charities in the country.
Taliban suicide attackers stormed the compound, killing at least 10 people in a five-hour gunfight on the anniversary of the country's independence from Britain. Photo by Ahmad Masood, [Photo/Agencies]
US astronaut Karen Nyber practises the procedure for a water landing during a training exercise at an Emergencies Ministry testing ground in Noginsk outside Moscow August 19, 2011.
Russian Air Force Su-27 Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) jet fighters perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, August 19, 2011.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with US Vice-President Joe Biden on Friday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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