Three online animations themed around China's anti-corruption campaign and featuring President Xi Jinping have been a hit over the Spring Festival, with netizens delighting to what is apparently a relaxing of attitudes to depicting Chinese leaders by cartoon.
Xinjiang police said they had shot dead eight terrorists and captured another one as they busted an "organized and premeditated" terrorist attack on early Monday morning.
Three masked men robbed a luxury watch shop in central Prague on Thursday afternoon and got away with goods worth seven million crowns (about 360,000 U.S. dollars), local police said.
The time is not right for a planned trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, and New Mexico's former governor, Bill Richardson, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.