There is no rest for Roger. Back near the top of the rankings, and fresh from his long-awaited Davis Cup triumph with Switzerland, Roger Federer is getting ready for the International Premier Tennis League that started on Friday.
In November, Beijing successfully hosted two big events: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting and the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama.
I was walking past Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Tuesday afternoon and saw a group of people were staging a die-in. The two dozen young men and women, of all races, were protesting the Monday night grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown in August.
TO THE GREAT RELIEF OF THE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS, Hong Kong police finally took long anticipated action over the past couple of days to clear illegal blockades set up by "Occupy Central" protesters on some of the city's main thoroughfares.
CODE-NAMED "FOX HUNT 2014", THE SPECIAL campaign to bring back those suspected of economic crimes who have fled the country has netted hundreds since July.
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has resigned, becoming the first victim of the Democrats' loss in the mid-term election.
Zhang Gaoxing, owner of a truck in Henan province, and his wife tried to commit suicide by drinking pesticide on Nov 24 after local road management authorities imposed fine on them for overload. The woman survived but her husband died.
The latest Chinese "god song" (an Internet term to describe pop songs that spread virally through Internet) is still stirring fierce debate between those who view it as a milestone for Chinese pop music going global and those who regard it as bad for China's image.
Fresh protests have erupted in about a dozen US cities against the decision to not indict white policeman Darren Wilson for fatally shooting 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
China should reform its education system to better serve its industry and economic development. And the public should eliminate their discrimination against blue-collar workers, says an article in the China Youth Daily. Excerpts:
Many say the slowdown of Chinese GDP growth is the beginning of a new normal. Actually, a slowdown is not a problem, but the Chinese economy has some deficiencies that must be solved for it to be a healthy new normal.
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