Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, the undisputed royalty of Olympic beach volleyball after dominating the 2004 and 2008 Games, edged out their Chinese competitors Tuesday afternoon to advance to Wednesday's final, which will be their last game together.

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Earlier this afternoon, the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 successfully docked with the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-1.

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On a sunny afternoon on the Chinese side of the river, retired factory worker Liu Weibao takes in a music performance in a riverside park.

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Not far away on a recent Thursday afternoon, at a Mothercare store on Huaihai Middle Road, wealthier Chinese shoppers were spending big money for baby products with foreign labels.

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In 2007, he skipped afternoon classes at his school in Beijing and started an internship at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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