Grant sends Shevchenko strong message

HULL, England: Avram Grant has warned Andriy Shevchenko he cannot guarantee the Ukraine striker a place in his Chelsea revolution.

Injured Owen out in big blow to England and club

LONDON: Michael Owen will be sidelined at least until late October and will miss the next four games for Newcastle United and England, his club manager Sam Allardyce said on Wednesday.

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Bilardo says Argentine football in a sorry state

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The unhappy childhood of our king of the ring

Zou Shiming achieved two major breakthroughs in Chinese boxing history when he won a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and then went on to become the country's first world boxing champion in 2005. But few know that his childhood dream was to become a chivalrous martial artist.

Nice guys finish first

Most heroes are unspoken. But a national campaign launched this July sought to identify those who are moral models for the rest of the country and announce their names loudly and proudly for the world to hear.

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Knight at the museum

Wu Yongqi, curator of the Qinshihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is often called the "guard of the Qin terracotta warriors".

Saving lives in a desert hospital built on sand

Jiang Shuqing, 50, spends most of her weekends attending medical seminars to catch up with the technological developments she missed during her three years at a medical aid mission in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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How to make a mooncake

1. Prepare stuffing: Traditional ingredients of Cantonese-style mooncake include five kinds of kernel - pine cone, sesame, walnut meat, melon seed and almond. Alternatively, red beans are a good option.

Not all the festivities follow a Straits path to home

Lin Fengcheng has no special plan for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Unlike other Taiwan businessmen, who are busy arranging air-tickets back home for family reunions, the Beijing-based 34-year-old has buried himself in work. He had no idea of the actual date of the festival.