Pandas

The pair, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will be loaned to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for a 10-year period.

The births are particularly rare as it is notoriously hard to breed pandas

Birth gives 'new hope’ for extincting pandas, fewer than 2,000 now live in the wild

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented two pandas to Moscow’s zoo at a ceremony with Vladimir Putin

Fu Feng, Fu Ban brought up by their mother without human intervention

A giant television screen showed the pandas being lowered onto the tarmac from a passenger jet

The six-month-old panda cubs could be seen doing somersaults, climbing tree branches and cuddling each other