1. Global smartphone shipments reached 1.47 billion units in 2016, up by 2.3 percent from last year, said IDC.

2. 英国科学家本周一证实，莱斯特市的一个停车场地下挖出的遗骸为15世纪英格兰国王理查三世，这也解开了长达五百年的谜团。

3. China's Ministry of Education (MOE) said at a news conference that most of the world's foreign students who study abroad are from China.

4. 7. Political wars guarantee intense volatility through 2014-2016 elections

5. 彭博(Bloomberg)软性大宗商品指数上涨21%，工业金属和能源指数则分别上涨24%和1.5%。

6. This figure marks the highest rate of growth since 2011. As the total annual box office in China five years ago was only 10 billion yuan.

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2. 'My first duty, my first responsibility was to be true to the original feel of the book, to be true to Ian Fleming: his creation, his world and his ideas.

3. The 60-episode TV drama was adapted from a novel Legend of Princess Pearl published in 2007. It focuses on the protagonist Shen Zhenzhu’s romance with her husband and their efforts to protect the country.

4. For: Well-received by both audiences and critics, it tells a crucial slice of history.

5. 相比之下，沪股市盈率为12.6倍。这反映出A股和H股的巨大价差（37%）。在经历2015年的跌宕起伏之前，二者价差更多时候处于20%以下——暗示H股指数大有上行空间。诚然，H股指数并不代表中国“新经济”中最好的部分，特别是银行股占比偏大。增长预测十分惨淡。然而，在预期已经如此糟糕的情况下，很难想象还能坏得哪里去。即使是受产能过剩困扰的地产业也在逐渐走出低迷。

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3. Have any franchise-leading duo reinvented themselves as spectacularly as Twilight’s Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson? Both have become art-house mainstays. Pattinson’s latest Good Time, keeps going his recent pattern of looking fairly unrecognisable. After he transformed himself with shaggy beard and spectacles in The Lost City of Z he now has bleach-blond hair as a bank robber who tries to pull off the perfect heist in New York City, only to get his younger brother (Ben Safdie), who suffers from a developmental disability, arrested for the crime. He tries to use the money he stole to post his brother’s bail, but complications ensue. Many complications. In addition to appearing as the younger brother, Safdie co-directs the film with his own brother Josh Safdie, and Good Time was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Released November 3 in Japan, November 17 in the UK and Ireland and November 23 in Greece. (Credit: A24)