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The Herakleidon Museum will host the exhibition “Ancient Chinese Science and Technology” of the China Museum of Science and Technology in Beijing introducing to the Greek public for the first time some of the remarkable technological achievements of the Chinese civilization, one of the most ancient.

A visitor looks at artworks in the exhibition 'Chinese Xieyi Masterpieces from the National Art Museum of China' at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens on Thursday ahead of Friday's opening to the public. The exhibition, which has been organized in collaboration with the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, runs from this Friday until November 14.

Standard & Poor's slashed China's credit rating on Sept. 21, warning that a prolonged period of debt growth had raised "economic and financial risks."

S&P, which downgraded China's debt from AA-minus to A-plus, is the second major credit ratings agency to slash the Asian giant's rating after Moody's made the same decision in May.

China increased yesterday the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Beijing-Shanghai line to 350 kilometers per hour, six years after a fatal accident led to a speed cap.

The speed limit had been reduced to 300 kilometers per hour after 40 people died in a high-speed train crash near Wenzhou in July 2011.

China is on track to launch its first Mars probe around 2020, and plans call for retrieving soil and rock samples from the red planet before 2030, said Zhang Rongqiao, the mission's chief designer, China Daily reports. 

Ahead of the Interpol General Assembly that will start on September 26, the US is "mustering all forces" to make Pristina a new member of the organization.

US President Donald Trump has said during his first speech to the UN General Assembly that Washington may have to "totally destroy" North Korea if it does not become more compliant and abandon its nuclear program, AFP reported.

Ahead of the Interpol General Assembly that will start on September 26, the US is "mustering all forces" to make Pristina a new member of the organization.

The volume of Turkey's natural stone sales to China reached 625 million dollars in the first eight months of the year with a 38 percent jump since the same period in 2016, standing at more than one third of the overall exports to Asia's giant economy. 

BELGRADE - Flights from Beijing to Belgrade were on Friday restored after 17 years as Serbian PM Ana Brnabic welcomed a Hainan Airlines Airbus A330-300 at the Nikola Tesla Airport.

"It is fantastic to see the results of hard work and this is why people consent to invest their whole lives in the work of the government," she told reporters.