LONDON: Working out can be not only tough and time-consuming, it is often downright bamboozling because there is so much information to comprehend. We looked at how the five biggest fitness myths stack up against scientific fact.
The bright silver arch, with a mirror positioned underneath, and a uniquely designed wooden bench are out of the ordinary. Welcome to the world of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), Spain's most eccentric architect. The exhibition, Cosmos Gaudi: Architecture, Geometry and Design, is now running at the Capital Museum in Beijing until August 2.
It was a pivotal moment of East-meets-West culture on Beijing's art stage. At the Forbidden City, acclaimed director Zhang Yimou and his international crew staged Puccini's opera, Turandot. That same week, Sichuan dramatist Wei Minglun presented Chinese Princess Du Landuo - his adaptation of Puccini's famous work.
Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." British actor Barrie Rutter has always lived his dream, and this year marks a special highlight in his long and distinguished career.
Ten years ago, in the sunny Caribbean island of Jamaica, Nicoleen Johnson had to decide between two attractive post-graduate scholarships: a one-year master's program in England or four years at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Inside a rudimentary mud house in one of China's most far-flung regions, half a dozen wide-eyed villagers crowd around the screen of a laptop, as though glimpsing some alien part of their future. It is the first time any of these impoverished farmers has seen a computer.
MIKOLAJKI, Poland: The clouds in the clear blue sky seem to skirt the rolling hills in Poland's Masuria Province, as we paddle along a stream so clear that the fish can be seen darting amid a carpet of underwater plants.
SHENZHEN: How many couples plan to get married on a snow-capped mountain? It may not be the normal ceremony, but on the first day of October on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang, a scenic city in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, more than 500 couples are planning to hold a massive wedding ceremony.
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