Stand-in England manager Gareth Southgate hinted on Monday that he will ask captain Wayne Rooney to continue playing in midfield for his country.
If self-belief was any guarantee of footballing success, Swansea may have picked a winner in appointing Bob Bradley as their new boss.
A technological solution is about to hit the market as the nation's expanding droves of drivers thirst for an upgrade of parking lot capabilities.
Zhang Xueqing, a 32-year-old accountant, has recently been busy redecorating her apartment in Chengdu, while teaching her parents to use the face recognition door control system.
Staring silently and entirely focused on her game of Candy Crush 20-year-old Lingyi Tong, with a flick of her fingers, triggers a symphony of explosions on her iPad screen. Despite the bravura display, she fails to solve the level's challenge of matching fruit and destroying jellies with her two final moves - falling short by only a single jelly.
Compared to other gaming sectors, console gaming in China is still in its infancy but analysts said it is poised for big growth.
A staple of Chinese gaming has long been the personal computer. Today, not only is their sale increasing in China, but the country in many ways is pushing the frontier of PC gaming.
It is rare to find any chief executive officer - let alone one leading a company with 800 employees - finding the time to spend three to four hours a day playing games. But Kevin Chou does.
As bus journeys go, my trip on the small green 830 Frequenta service across North Yorkshire seems a promising prospect as we rumble over the cobbled streets of Richmond and head out towards open country.
1. It's the world's happiest country: According to the most recent Happy Planet Index, published last month, which aims to measure human well-being and environmental impact, Costa Rica is the most satisfying place in which to live. It has an HPI score of 44.7, putting it just above Mexico and Colombia. Britain, on the other hand, languishes in 34th.
If you want to experience what it feels like to encounter historical figures in the flesh and hear their stories in person, the Encore Dunhuang show is for you. Staged in a desert in Dunhuang, in Gansu province, the show lets you meet, talk to and feel the emotions of figures from Dunhuang's history.
The wind blows away the clouds in a small city in Dunhuang in Northwest China's Gansu province, but it can't douse the passion of visitors swarming into three giant-tower-like buildings looking over rows of dunes, where the first Silk Road Dunhuang International Cultural Expo - the biggest cultural feast in this tourist city of less than 200,000 residents - is being held.
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