Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was sworn in as the new chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Saturday.

Chinese President Xi on Saturday attended a ceremony overseeing the signing of a framework to deepen cooperation between south China's Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions.

A doctor who lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life.

Local police have arrested a man charged in kidnapping Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar in the U.S. She is no longer alive, according to local media ABC7.

The Chinese ambassador stressed that China is always firmly opposed to arms sales to Taiwan, which violate the one-China principle as well as the three joint communiques between China and the United States.