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Photo: A cat lies on a desk at a store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Saturday. The store, which combines a cat cafe with a bookshop, opened to the public on Saturday, and is the first of its kind in China. Hard-core cat lovers are welcome to spend time with their favorite felines while reading in the shop.

Bilingual news: A wedding is meant to be one of the happiest days of a woman's life - but it isn't always that for her closest friends. A new survey by online jewelry brand Vashi.com has revealed the lengths some brides will go to in order to make sure they shine on their big day. In a recent poll of 1,000 bridesmaids, 72 percent of respondents believed they had been lumbered with an unflattering outfit to make the bride look better, with only a third given a choice in what they wore. But most gave as good as they got - more than a fifth of the bridesmaids insisted on altering their outfit before they would participate in the wedding.

Buzzword: "Laptop zombie" refers to a person who is oblivious to everyone and everything except the screen in front of them at a coffee shop or similar establishment that offers free wireless Internet.