Hong Kong's public libraries organized an array of activities, including storytelling sessions, magic shows, talks and a creative competition, to mark the annual World Book Day.
Doctors in southern China have successfully performed surgery to remove a rare parasite foetus, described as a "serious birth defect", from a recently born baby. A woman, surnamed Yan, gave birth to a boy weighing 2.9kg at the end of August in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The boy was immediately sent to the intensive care unit after staff saw attached to.