China's lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon's unexplored far side.
The Chang'e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission which was fraught with risks.
Scientists are eagerly awaiting the Chang’e-6 as the samples could answer key questions about how planets are formed.
China is the only country to have landed on the far side of the Moon, having done so before in 2019.
The far side - which faces away from Ear

A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.
Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.
Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of "Righteous and Courageous Role Model".
The Japanese embassy in China also low

Hundreds of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure projects to date.
[color=#0c0c0c][size=large][font=noto_serif, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif]There, a $168 billion hydropower system is expected to generate more electricity than any other in t

China’s military mobilized army, navy, air and rocket units around Taiwan for two days of military drills aimed at sending a “serious warning” against any push for Taiwanese independence and “external” forces interfering with the island.
[color=#0c0c0c][size=large][font=noto_serif, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif]The exercises – dubbed “Justice Mission-2025” – would test combat readiness and “

Beijing on Monday reiterated its call for the U.S. and Israel to immediately cease military operations against Iran, warning the global economy could be imperiled as the war expanded to multiple Middle Eastern countries and threatened shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Around 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas supply passes through the Persian Gulf into the Arabian Sea before it’s transported to destinations around the world, making the Strait and its adjacent waters “vital internatio