This year's International Youth Day theme, "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations," highlights a powerful truth: despite wildly different national realities, young people everywhere share similar hopes for dignity, opportunity and a sustainable future.

Chinese animated hit sends visitors flocking to Hanging Temple

UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC believe that FIFA president Gianni Infantino's recent plans to sell an interest in the World Cup was a “fundamental breach of trust” with the institutions world soccer's governing body serves.

China's 2026 summer box office has topped 8.5 billion yuan ($1.26 billion), with daily earnings exceeding 100 million yuan for 30 consecutive days, according to Maoyan, an online ticketing platform.

Sony and Marvel's superhero film "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" stayed atop the North American box office with 145 million US dollars during its second weekend in theaters, according to data released by measurement firm Rentrak on Sunday.

Performers sing Mongolian songs for students on a special train for study tour from northeast China's Heilongjiang Province to the capital city of Beijing on Aug. 9, 2026. The Y404 special train for a study tour carrying 598 teachers and students on Sunday departed from the Qiqihar railway station

In a London rehearsal room, Chinese musical-theater actress Fiona Zhu donned a long, pale costume reminiscent of traditional Chinese opera, taking on the role of an ancient Chinese woman on stage.

For the first time in decades, the Hundred Flowers Awards are back in Beijing – the city where they were born.

A viral new term has taken global social media by storm in 2026: "Chinamaxxing." To date, related hashtags have garnered over 4 billion views on social media platforms.

Cai Gao had gone to the roof to collect her laundry. Before reaching the clothesline, however, she stopped beside a lace fern, pointed out hydrangeas yet to bloom and searched a small pond until a red fish flashed beneath the pennywort.Only then did the 80-year-old Chinese picture-book artist tend

As the new Chinese film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East rolls out its nationwide advanced screening event in China from August 8 to 10 – with daily showings running between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. at selected cinemas – food enthusiasts and filmgoers alike are abuzz over one of its most striking

At Canghai Sports Park in Wuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, residents are dancing with colorful ribbon dragons to celebrate National Fitness Day, observed annually in China on August 8 to commemorate the legacy of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Also known as "swinging dragons," the

The 38th Hundred Flowers Awards opened on the evening of August 7 at Beijing’s Chaoyang Park, marking the first time in 64 years that China's only film awards decided entirely by audience votes have returned to the city where they began.Among the evening's most quietly resonant moments was the

"I'd just get bored with life otherwise." At 97, British woman Betty Bromage broke her own Guinness World Record as the world's oldest female wing walker, four years after first setting it. "I can't drive, I can't see very well and I get a bit frustrated. So, I want to do the things I can do," she added. The quote she lives by? "We pass through this world but once, any good we can do, any kindness we can show, do it now. Do not defer or neglect it. You'll not pass this way again."

Tourists take a selfie during a torch festival revelry at a culture park in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 6, 2026. The annual torch festivals were held in multiple locations on Thursday night, attracting crowds of tourists and locals from different