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Who will Baidu pick next?

Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com used a character sketch of Xu Sanduo, the hero of a popular TV series Soldier Attacks, as its logo last week, declaring they will put a different star in the spotlight every month starting from November.

Beijing Daily Messenger reported that the website will make its choices based on their engine search rankings.

The figure will have been highly publicized during the previous month and he or she will represent a current trend, a press officer from Baidu told the newspaper.

For example, Xu Sanduo, is a devoted soldier. He is an ordinary person but he is popular with a big audience, the officer said.

The move has been welcomed by netizens. "Whenever I log on to the website and am greeted by Xu Sanduo's smiling face, I feel full of energy," one user wrote.

Kidman: 'I'll hang onto this husband'

Nicole Kidman, who split from Tom Cruise in 2001, is determined not to make the same mistake with husband-of-one-year Keith Urban.

She says: "Tom and I, we moved and moved and moved. Your sense of where do I come from becomes less and less relevant.

"A lot of my life, particularly when I was working so much, it was about trying to fill in the gaps. Now there's much more reason to exist in the world without my identity needing to be through work.

"I have a new niece, I have a new marriage, we just bought an acreage in Tennessee, which we're really happy to build a house on and spend some time doing that.

"I'm just not willing to give up my life with my man anymore."

Becks poor substitute for Posh, Longoria says

Eva Longoria isn't excited about footballer David Beckham's guest appearance on a forthcoming episode of Desperate Housewives - she would rather his wife Victoria had a cameo instead.

The Mexican beauty has become close friends with the Beckhams since their summer move to Los Angeles, and was the first to dispel rumors that the sports star would be one half of a gay couple when he makes his appearance on the show in the near future

She says, "I'd be more excited if Victoria was joining the cast - I love her. They're an amazing couple - so down to earth and sweet."

Agencies

(China Daily 11/13/2007 page18)