BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- As the doors swing open at Beijing's new robot-themed restaurant, diners are greeted by humanoid waiters who nod and speak in lifelike gestures, while robotic servers ...

Yehya stood amid the ruins, smoke clinging to his bloodied black shirt. His hands trembled as they brushed dust from a half-buried saddle. "Thirty years of work," whispered the man in his 50s. "Gone ...