On Jan 13, the Shandong High People's Court overturned an original ruling in which Zhang was given life imprisonment for raping a girl, and acquitted Zhang after a retrial, because the evidence in his case was not strong enough to convict.
On June 5, mountain torrents in Shiyan, Hubei province, killed one person and damaged many roads. Several cars were swept away.
On Jan 26, Manchester, which was home to some of the first Chinese people living in the UK and which claims to have the country's second-largest Chinatown, will see a parade, led by a 53.3-meter dragon, make its way from Manchester Central Library to the city's Chinatown from 12:30pm, with a fireworks finale at 6pm.
On Singles Day - Nov 11 - China's largest e-commerce shopping promotion, 675 million packages were delivered, 26 percent more than on the same day last year and a record for the most parcels delivered in one day.
On Oct 5, however, the MTR was down for the count. All lines and stations had to be closed all day - more than 80 of 93 stations had been damaged.
On Sunday, 16-year-old Thunberg posted on social media accompanied by a news story regarding the Australian fires -- "not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible?"
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On Monday, the most active corn contract for July delivery fell 10.75 cents, or 2.75 percent to settle at .8075 per bushel. July wheat delivery went down 18 cents, or 3.44 percent to close at .0525 per bushel. July soybeans were down 19.5 cents, or 1.91 percent to settle at .0175 per bushel.
On Monday, UNESCO's Director-General Audrey Azoulay said both the US and Iran had ratified the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
On Sept 11, the US Supreme Court granted a request by the Trump administration to fully enforce the new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the US-Mexico border.
On Sunday, former national security adviser John Bolton called on Republican leaders to recognize Biden as president-elect.