(From right) Chapecoense's Helio Neto Golden Tate III Youth Jersey , Alan Ruschel and Jakson Follmann react prior to the Joan Gamper Trophy friendly soccer match against Barcelona at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona, Spain on Monday. Photo: IC
Barcelona's traditional curtain raiser, the Joan Gamper Trophy, took on emotional significance with the visit on Monday of Chapecoense, the Brazilian team who lost most of their playing and coaching staff in an air crash last year.


The plane carrying Chapecoense to the Copa Sudamericana final first leg against -Atletico Nacional crashed into mountains outside Medellin, Colombia on November 28 -after running out of fuel, killing 71 of the 77 people on board.


Barca invited Chapecoense to contest the traditional -friendly, named after the club's Swiss founder, 10 days after the crash, offering half the proceeds from the game to the Brazilian club in addition to making a donation of 250,000 euros ($294,875.00) to help the club's reconstruction.


The Spanish side won 5-0 with goals from Gerard Deulofeu, Sergio Busquets, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Denis Suarez.


The players who survived the crash - Helio Neto, Jakson Follmann and Alan Ruschel -were given a separate tribute as they walked out of the tunnel at the Nou Camp after the teams emerged, while volunteers held up a heart-shaped banner in Chapecoense's green and white colors.


"It's an honor to receive Chapecoense for everything they have been through, they can count on our solidarity," said Barca coach Ernesto Valverde before the game, his first at the Nou Camp since succeeding Luis Enrique in June.


"Today is a special day, we are very happy to have you here and we hope it's an experience you never forget," said Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta.


Former goalkeeper Follmann, who had to have his leg amputated after the crash and wears a prosthetic leg to walk, took the honorary kickoff with defender Neto, who could not hold back the tears when he came out of the tunnel.


Neto required knee surgery and a gallbladder operation after the crash but has said he plans to return to playing next year.


Up in the stadium press box, Rafael Henzel, a journalist who survived the crash, commentated on the game.


Defender Ruschel was playing his second game since suffering spinal injuries in the crash and wore the captain's armband, kissing the Nou Camp turf before the game began and raising his hands to the air in tribute to his fallen teammates. He only managed to play 35 minutes before being substituted and was given a standing ovation by the 64,705 -supporters inside the stadium.


LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The exhibition Titanic in Photographs is now on display on the retired ocean liner Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, showcasing more than 100 photographs and a few rare artifacts from the ill-fated ship.


The exhibition takes visitors onto the decks and into many of the staterooms, with names like Smoking Room and Turkish Bath. There's also the 1st Class Lounge and the Grand Staircase, where Jack and Rose met formally in the 1997 movie "Titanic."


"There are a couple of hundreds of artifacts here, some of them onboard the ship themselves," Everette Hoard, the Commodore at Queen Mary told Xinhua on Thursday. "We have a watch, in particular, that was dropped by a passenger hurrying to a life boat to abandon ship as the Titanic was sinking."


There's gold pocket watch that was dropped by a 1st class passenger as he rushed to one of the last lifeboats, and was later picked up by one of Titanic's crew members.


One of the highlights of the exhibition also includes the only surviving White Star Line (the company owned and operated Titanic) lifeboat, virtually identical to those used by Titanic's passengers, as they waited to be rescued from the icy waters of the North Atlantic after Titanic foundered.


Alongside many of the images are display cabinets containing over 150 genuine artifacts from Titanic's identical twin sister ship Olympic, which served until 1935. Both of them used the same tiles, furniture, and decorations from the same manufactures. Since almost everything on the Titanic is still deep in the North Atlantic Ocean, these items from Olympics bring the photographs to life, transporting the visitor back in time and placing them in the picture.


"As you walk through, you will be able to look at these beautiful photographs, for instance where the clock is lying in a glass case, you will be able to look at a photograph of the room in the Titanic and see that exact same clock, or a one exactly like that."


Located in the Port of Long Beach, the Queen Mary features a rich maritime history and authentic Art Deco decor. At the time of her maiden voyage in May of 1936, she was considered the grandest ocean liner ever built. The Queen Mary officially retired in 1967 and now moors permanently at the port of Long Beach as a historic hotel.


Titanic in Photographs runs through July 2018.


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MONTGOMERY, the United States, March 8 (Xinhua) -- African Americans in Selma City in the U.S. state of Alabama marched on Sunday to express their anger about racial inequality, once again putting racial problems under spotlight in the United States.


Tens of thousands of people, mainly African Americans, marched to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march.


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