As with all of Herzog's films, there is an upside and perhaps the main reason to see the movie are entrancing underwater ballet sequences of the divers who risk their lives every time they plunge into the freezing...
The second set started almost as the first one did, with Serena taking a statistical edge in points. But it was Venus who scored key points when they mattered most. In fact, she lost just one serve in each set...
Last year, for the first time, there were more pensioners than children in Britain. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed there were 11,129,000 people aged under 16, compared with 11,272,000 aged 60 and over...
Taking the first step toward the church was very difficult. I was suspicious of Christians because I am a liberal and I disagree with the views held by some conservative Christians. I support gay marriage, female priests and...
US2008@Event organizer Art Mobley said some 100 people signed up on the Obama Web site, but there were many more than that at the 1130 restaurant in the Arizona Center, Phoenix, Ariz. It was wall-to-wall in the bar, in the
While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launches violent attacks on Falun Gong in Flushing, New York, in order to counteract the global "Quit the CCP" campaign and to conceal the CCP's domestic...
From AFP:In a small courtyard building a stone's throw from Tiananmen Square and the political centre of China, veteran rights lawyer Mo Shaoping dreams of the day his nation will be ruled by law and not by men.Mo, 50, only
From Reuters:China barred a radical Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and lawmaker from a visit to the earthquake ravaged province of Sichuan on Friday, despite his earlier inclusion on an official list of delegates.Leung Kwok-hung, a strident pro-democracy activist known as
From New York Times:On a dusty, shoddy baseball field here this spring, Jim Lefebvre, manager of the Chinese national baseball team, gathered his players and demonstrated the Red Sox slugger Manny Ramírez's philosophy on hitting. "If you hit it here,"
From Wall Street Journal:Aggressive Chinese bloggers make an art of challenging Chinese government propaganda. This week, they can claim a victory.On Friday, Chinese authorities announced that four Communist Party, local government and security officials in Guizhou province's Weng'an county were
The weekend charter flights carrying mainland tourists across the Taiwan Straits contributed to the peaceful development of the cross-Straits relationship and opened a new page in the Chinese nation's prosperity, said Chinese Kuomintang hon ...
The Three Gorges Dam Project has started discharging water to lower the water level in the reservoir after excessive rainfall upstream. The inflow was 34,500 cubic meters per second at 8 a.m. Saturday, up from 27,000 six hours befor ...
The largest unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has been quashed in southwest China's Weng'an County in Guizhou province. Currently a large number of paramilitary and riot polic...
Holland Cotter, art critic for the New York Times, is on a month-long visit to China to write a series which will, "explore how China's shifting self-image is reshaping its art and art institutions." From the first article, about Chinese
Newsweek interviews Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai:Back in 1997, as Beijing regained sovereignty over Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai made everybody's short list of people who'd face trouble should Beijing decide to play tough. Lai, a vocal advocate of democracy,
