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Shanghai, Sep 9 (EFE/EPA).- China's consumer price index (CPI), the main indicator of inflation, increased 0.8 percent year-on-year in August, according to data published Thursday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).This represents a 1 percent drop with respect to the previous month's data, and is below that expected by analysts, who predicted a rise of around 1 percent for August. (Camera: ALEX PLAVEVESKI).B-ROLL OF THE SKYSCRAPERS AND A FOOD MARKET IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
China launches a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on July 30. IMAGES
After a seven-month-long journey, a joint European-Russian Mars lander separates from its mothership and heads toward the red planet's surface. Diane Hodges reports.
China has announced plans to land a rover on Mars before the end of the decade, according to state-owned news service Xinhua.
Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter marks a decade of scientific discoveries on the Red Planet. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).