Take a peak

PATAGONIA: "Choique?" my wife, Jennifer, asks. "The Indian name for rheas," I tell her. "See, over there, like small ostriches. Two of them." "Watch where you're going!" she warns me, as our small pickup truck - with our three teenagers, Carissa, Cameron and Connor shoehorned in back - unexpectedly drifts onto the road's shoulder. I stop and grab my binoculars.

Explore the other Riviera

LANGESUND: Norway has a holiday region with just the right ingredients to solve a perplexing perennial problem for many families, namely where they should spend a vacation together.

Rivers to merge in birthday temple

The Tanzhe Temple, a well-known ancient Buddhist temple situated in the Mentougou District in western Beijing, will celebrate its 1,700th anniversary on September 9.

Life Health

IN BRIEF (Page 19)

From schoolteacher to heart-starter, it took a lot of ticker to get to the top

The eldest son of a big rural family, Dr Wu Qingyu, 55, could still hear his mother coughing as she cooked for the whole family - his father and eight siblings in a village in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Cutting-edge surgeon offers new hope

Xiaoli, 28, was born with Ebstein's anomaly - a malformation of her heart's tricuspid valve that causes it to leak. Consequently, some of the blood pumped by the right ventricle goes backwards through the valve with each heartbeat, causing her heart to enlarge.

Ji's journey from roadside to recovery

Ji Jiali (pictured) was only several months old when she was abandoned on a roadside in Shanxi Province seven years ago. The villager who found Ji and took her home, Zhang Quanmei, noticed a strange bluish tint to Ji's lips and fingertips.

Changing hearts and minds

Mimicking the sounds of motor vehicles, a boy was playing with a toy motorcycle in a corridor of the inpatient ward in Beijing Huaxin Hospital. His parents were watching intently, their eyes filled with worry. At a glance, people would notice the bluish color in the boy's skin, lips and fingertips.

Sports

Old Spider Hands saves South Korea

KUALA LUMPUR: South Korea's veteran goalkeeper Lee Won-jae showed his young team mates there is some life in the old spider yet after breaking Iranian hearts in an Asian Cup quarterfinal penalty shootout on Sunday.

F1 title race too tight a tussle to pick, tips Spaniard Alonso

NUERBURGRING, Germany: McLaren's Fernando Alonso declared the Formula One title race too close to call after slashing team mate Lewis Hamilton's lead to just two points on Sunday.