Masataka Shimizu, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, bows to evacuees from Namiemachi at an evacuation center in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima prefecture in this picture taken by Kyodo on May 4, 2011.
The torch relay for the 26th World University Games kicked off at Peking University on Wednesday, marking the 100-day countdown to the opening of the competition that is also known as the Universiade.
.Iwata Ryuzo, a 75- year-old Japanese Buddhist monk, repents in Chongqing on May 3, 2011 for the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers who invaded China in World War II and prays for the 12,000 victims who died in the bombing of the city
Teacher Li Changhong (R) shows delinquenent juveniles how to gesture when singing a song devoted to mother at a juvenile offender correctional center in Hefei, East China's Anhui province, May 4, 2011. Four teachers of a local elementary school visited the center ahead of Mother's Day to communicate with offenders. It was reported that most of delinquenent juveniles committed crimes because a lack of proper education and care of parents.
Central China's Hubei province has been plagued by a lingering spring drought that has impacted grain production and disrupted the area's supply of drinking water.
Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday urged Chinese youths to work hard and be persistent in achieving their goals while he spent more than two hours chatting with young people on the eve of China's Youth Day.
The 1.5 million euros Mars rover Eurobot prototype was transported from the Netherlands to Spain for its first test under field conditions.
A displaced native child of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China went back to the region's capital Urumqi on Monday evening as the first person to return home following the regional government's pledge in late April to bring back local children who are wandering in other parts of the country.
Relatives of mainland victims killed in a train crash in Chiayi county, Taiwan, attend a memorial ceremony in Chiayi on Tuesday, seven days after the accident in accordance with tradition.
US first lady Michelle Obama dances during a surprise visit to Alice Deal Middle School for a "Let's Move" fitness event in Washington May 3, 2011.
A soldier demonstrates his skills during an open day of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Hong Kong Garrison in Hong Kong, south China, on May 2, 2011.