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Photo: Wang Zhiyou (left) and Li Xiaojing, father of a 3-year-old girl who has neuroblastoma, a childhood extracranial cancer, beg on the streets in Hefei, Anhui province, on Monday. The girl has already had two major operations and seven rounds of chemotherapy, which have cost her poor family 150,000 yuan ($24,200). To seek help from others, Li contacted Wang, a generous beggar known for donating the money he gets to other people in need.

Bilingual news: The average man can stand just six minutes of his woman's chatting about her lunch, her feelings and celebrities, it is claimed. By contrast, he can pay attention for an entire 15 minutes' conversation with his male friends about soccer or their sex lives, according to research carried out among 2,000 British adults. The findings also showed women listen longer and more attentively while conversing with their friends than they do with their boyfriends or husbands.

Buzzword: "The Pomodoro Technique" is a time-management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks.