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Students studying in USChina remained the overseas country with most students in U.S. universi-ties in 2016-2017 academic year, according to the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai.

A total of 350,755 Chinese students were enrolled at U.S. institutions of higher education in the academic year, up 6.8 percent, retaining China’s top slot* for eight years in a row, it said during a press conference on November 14. Chinese students made up 32.5 percent of all interna-tional students in the United States. Of them, 142,851 were undergradu-ates, a 5.3 percent increase. The number of Chinese graduate students increased by 4.1 percent.Transcontinental projectThe Chinese section of a transcon-tinental* expressway project set to link western China with Europe has opened to traffi c.

A key part of the project, a 10-km section of road in the border city of Horgos in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which con-nects a quarantine* area with the Lianyungang-Horgos expressway, came into use on Saturday, marking the across-the-board opening of the expressway in China. The project, with a total length of 8,445 km, links Lianyungang City in East China’s Jiangsu Province to St. Petersburg in Russia.Suspect detainedThe person in charge of a Shanghai day care center where staff were caught on camera allegedly abusing toddlers has been detained, police said on November 15.

The suspect, surnamed Zheng, was detained on November 13 after three staff members from the Ctrip center’s management were detained, accord-ing to Shanghai police.Economic corridorChina has proposed building an economic corridor with Myanmar to further enhance bilateral pragmatic* cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minis-ter Wang Yi said on Sunday.

The economic corridor will start in the north from China’s Yunnan Province, go down south to the cen-tral Myanmar city of Mandalay, and further extend east to the new city of Yangon and west to the Kyaukpyu special economic zone, forming a three-pillar giant cooperation pat-tern, he explained. (SD-Agencies)

1. First human head trans-plant ‘success’The world’s fi rst human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China, according to a controversial Italian doctor who said at a press conference in Vienna on Friday that he and his team are now ready to perform the surgery on a living person.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, chief of the Turin Advanced Neuromodu-lation* Group, said the operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Ren Xiaoping, who last year successfully grafted* a head onto a monkey’s body.

2. Elizabeth II marks 70th wedding anniversaryQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrated 70 years of marriage on Monday, becoming Britain’s fi rst reigning couple to mark a platinum* wedding anni-versary.

The decades-spanning mar-riage of the Queen — the nation’s longest serving sovereign — has outlasted* those of all prior British monarchs*.

The royal couple will not hold any public events but have invited family and friends to Windsor Castle for a private dinner, accord-ing to media reports.

3. Signals offer hope in hunt for missing subHopes of fi nding survivors from a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members aboard have been revived after the navy had detected what could be distress calls*.

There has been no contact with the ARA San Juan since Novem-ber 15, prompting Buenos Aires to launch an air and sea search with help from countries including Brazil, Britain, Chile, Uruguay and the United States.

The search has, however, been complicated by stormy conditions, Argentine navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said on Saturday.

4. Hariri to return to Leba-non as crisis simmersPrime Minister Saad Hariri said he will return to Lebanon for the Inde-pendence Day celebrations today and explain his situation, after his shocking resignation announcement in Saudi Arabia sparked turmoil*.

Speaking after talks in Paris on Saturday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking to broker a way out of the crisis, Hariri said he would “make known my position” once back in Beirut.

5. US troops in Japan banned from drinkingU.S. military personnel in Okinawa have been restricted to base and banned from drinking alcohol after a Marine* was arrested over a crash that killed a Japanese man.

Police on the southern Japanese island arrested 21-year-old Nicho-las James-McLean on Sunday on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury or death and driving under the infl uence of alcohol, said Kazuhiko Miyagi of the Okinawa police. (SD-Agencies)

Germany in political crisis as coalition talks collapseGerman Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Angela Merkel speaks after exploratory talks on forming a new government broke down on Sunday in Berlin. Merkel was left battling for political survival after the talks collapsed — plunging Germany into a crisis that could see it hold fresh elections. SD-Agencies