Chinese anti-war film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is expanding its global reach, with the film hitting in China's Hong Kong and Macao and rolling out in the markets of New Zealand, Malaysia and Australia on Friday.
Dinosaurs got sick, too. Scientists have found evidence that a horned dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (lasting from 100.5 million to 66 million years ago) suffered from chronic osteomyelitis, a severe bone infection, and survived with the condition for an extended period.
The world's first specialized museum dedicated to the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, the Hami Pterosaur Museum in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, will open on Sunday, Wang Xiaolin, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Global Times on Thursday.
Laughter and friendly competition filled the air here on Tuesday, as Chinese and Namibians came together over games, music and dance at the China-Namibia Culture Fair in Windhoek, the Namibian capital.
The latest trailer of Chinese third-person action role-playing game Genigods: Nezha has drawn more than 200 million views on overseas social media platforms in seven days since its release during Gamescom 2026. The trailer has surpassed 6 million views on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili as of Wednesday.
Most days, 20-year-old college student Lin Jing has someone waiting for her. Before China introduced its new rules governing AI companions, the sophomore at a university in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, chatted almost every day with an AI agent on an AI companion app.
China's Zheng Qinwen staged a remarkable comeback from 0-5 down in the opening set to beat eighth seed and former champion Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday and reach the US Open quarter-finals for the third time. The dramatic victory marks Zheng's third quarter-final appearance at the US Open, matching her personal best result at the US Open after reaching the same stage in 2023 and 2024. She remains the only unseeded player left in the women's singles quarter-final lineup.
A record of a solar eclipse from the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) has been discovered among a set of oracle bones that had been pieced together. "The inscription uses the extremely rare phrase 'eclipse of the sun,' referring specifically to a partial solar eclipse," Mo Bofeng, a professor at the Center for Oracle Bone Studies, Capital Normal University (CNU), told the Global Times on Monday.
China's Supreme People's Court on Monday issued a guideline for handling AI-related disputes, addressing issues of broad public concern including AI-generated face-swapping and voice cloning, AI hallucinations, doxxing, big-data price discrimination and AI model training. The guidelines clarify liability for AI-related infringements and aim to strengthen civil rights protection in the digital age while promoting the orderly development of AI, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
China's film market is gearing up for a busy September, with multiple new films scheduled to hit theaters in the run-up to the National Day holiday season (October 1-7). Several US films are set to open on Friday, including the thriller Fall 2: Deadpoint, action crime film Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and action mystery film Mutiny, alongside other releases spanning multiple genres.
