In China, U.S. Adopted Teen Finds His Roots

His father and uncle fall to the ground, crying uncontrollably. After 11 years of not knowing, relief of finding a child they thought had been lost forever pours out of them.

Read the full story on CNN: www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/

Everything changed in April this year when his adopted mother, Julia Norris, contacted lawyer Zhang Zhiwei, who works with volunteers in China, reuniting lost children with the parents.

"Based on Jiacheng’s memories we did some analysis, like his eating habits," Zhang said. "He likes vinegar, which should be in northern China and close to Shanxi. He also likes garlic … and from his memory his family grew potato and corn, which gave us a hint of the region he used to live."

Pandas Pair With Celebrities in China

Pandas in Sichuan Province got some play time with celebrities from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. MSNBC’s Dara Brown has the story.

3,700 Year Old Wall Discovered in Jerusalem

Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.

 

 

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100 Year Old Colour Photos of Russia Restored

Between 1907 and 1915, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii rode through even restricted parts of pre-revolutionary Russia in his specially fitted dark-room rail car, shooting color photos (a technology still in its infancy) by a method of his own invention. He took three consecutive photos of his subjects with three separate filters – red, green, and blue – and then combined them into full-color projections, thereby capturing a huge range of architecture, infrastructure, and people.

The photos have now been digitally restored in a project undertaken by the Library of Congress and can be seen online: www.newsweek.com/id/214585

The collection of photos includes the only known color photograph of Leo Tolstoy, as well as a self-portrait of the artist.

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