A troubled teenage girl in China was left almost completely bald after she pulled out so much of her own hair there was no room left for food in her stomach.
Premature births are a traumatic event for parents around the world. But the pain is magnified in China, where new mothers often struggle to access the support they need.
Ahead of this year’s World Cup, China made its first-ever loan of pandas to a Middle Eastern nation. But what is by now a well-oiled machine began in far more haphazard fashion.