Song Binbin, who has died, probably aged 77, became a poster girl for the bloody Chinese “Cultural Revolution” when on August 18 1966 she was photographed overlooking an immense rally in Tiananmen ...

The parade began with a march of the banner group of the Preobrazhensky Regiment Honor Guard’s unit carrying the Russian national flag and the legendary Victory Banner across Red Square MOSCOW, May 9.

FOR weeks, Peking-bound trains, buses and trucks have been crammed with groups of excited students and teachers. They are crowding into the city’s university halls and football stadiums, into railroad ...