Aerospace should be used for peaceful purposes only, and China is ready to take part in any international cooperation to ensure aerospace security, President Hu Jintao said on Friday.

There were wreaths and elegiac couplets. There were leaders, and students and former colleagues. And there were thousands of tearful eyes and muffled sobs.

FORT HOOD, Texas: A day after a US Army psychiatrist turned his gun on his comrades at the Fort Hood Army Base, starting a shootout that killed 13 people and wounded 30, military officers began piecing together what may have pushed him toward the rampage.

Vice-Minister of Commerce Yi Xiaozhun on Friday sounded his "strong dissatisfaction" following an announcement from the United States that it will impose massive "anti-dumping" charges on steel pipes imported from China.

China is gearing up for a bonanza of diplomatic activities beginning this weekend, including a premier's trip to Egypt, a presidential visit to Malaysia and Singapore, and then a people's welcome to the president of the United States Barack Obama.

GUANGZHOU: Two foreign passengers were killed and nine more wounded in a collision between a cargo ship and a high-speed passenger liner Thursday night in sea waters off this southern city, local authorities confirmed on Friday.

NEW DELHI: India barred foreign journalists on Thursday from covering a rare visit by the Dalai Lama to a China-India border region.