At the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, UK, athletes from many different disciplines are training for the 2012 Olympics in London. The state of the art sports centre was built in 2003 to host eight national sports associations by providing the necessary facilities needed to prepare the sportsmen to compete at the highest level. [...]

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The city of Beijing feels almost empty as soon as the Chinese New Year arrives, because the large migrant population have gone back home. But if you visit the [...]

Looking like Jessica Alba
A 21-year-old Shanghai woman wants to look like movie actress Jessica Alba. She told Reuters her boyfriend loved the star of movies like Fantastic Four. He once bought his girlfriend a blonde wig so she would look more like Jessica. So the woman is in Shanghai to have plastic surgery to look [...]

Jessica Alba wants to star in a Bollywood movie.
The ‘Fantastic 4′ star – who has a 19-month-old daughter Honor Marie with husband Cash Warren – has fallen in love with Indian films and would love the chance to show off a different side to her acting talents.
She said: “Hindi films are very dramatic. They are [...]

NEW YORK – Rapper Lil Wayne temporarily escaped jail on Tuesday when his sentencing for possessing a gun was postponed on the same day he bid goodbye to fans in a video he posted on the Web.
Lil Wayne, 27, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, appeared in New York State Supreme Court where his sentencing [...]

BERLIN – Roman Polanski may be under house arrest in a Swiss chalet, but the Polish-French director is set to dominate this year’s Berlin film festival where his latest movie “The Ghost Writer” will be unveiled.
Interest in the 76-year-old’s film, one of 20 competition entries vying for awards at the February 11-21 event, has inevitably [...]

The world’s oldest profession is getting a surge of new blood, thanks to a decision last week that opens the door to the first legal male prostitutes in US history.
The Shady Lady Ranch, a small brothel about 150 miles from Las Vegas where about four female prostitutes now work, is accepting applications via its website [...]

While people in Haiti are struggling to overcome the tragedy brought by the deadly earthquake, people in Sichuan recalled their own heart-breaking moment in May 2008. Halfway across the globe, hearts with sympathy are ready to offer help.
On Friday afternoon, students at Beichuan Middle School in Beichuan county, Sichuan province, gathered around a huge white [...]

Gunmen have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and four Afghans in northern Faryab province, a local police official said on Sunday.
Sayed Aslam Ziarati, police chief of Qaisar district where the men were abducted on Saturday evening, said they had been working on a road project in the area with a Chinese company.
“They were travelling in two [...]