Chelsea still title favorite: Mancini

MANCHESTER, England - Roberto Mancini claimed Chelsea will still win the Premier League title, despite seeing his Manchester City side hand the London club its first defeat of the season.

Bruce fumes over Liverpool goal

Sunderland boss Steve Bruce was left seething after referee Stuart Attwell's decision to allow a controversial Liverpool goal played a key role in his side's 2-2 draw at Anfield.

Wenger refuses to blame Almunia

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger declined to single out Manuel Almunia for blame after the error-prone keeper comitted two blunders as the Gunners were beaten 3-2 at home by West Bromwich Albion.

Real finds money can't buy you love or goals

MADRID - Jose Mourinho lamented Real Madrid's failure to put the ball in the net as his side was held to a humbling 0-0 draw at Levante in La Liga on Saturday.

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Bling Bling Festival

The annual Hong Kong Jewelry and Gem Fair glitters with color this year, as Gan Tian finds out.

What the well-heeled are wearing

"A girl is just as hot as the shoes she chooses", according to style and music icon Lady Gaga. Gan Tian shows off some heels that will raise the temperature.

A journey through time

Expo brings the world to the Chinese people. When thousands of visitors from all parts of the country leave the Expo site tired and hungry every evening, they surely know more about the world than they did that morning. And I am one of them.

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Visions of a lost civilization

The 46-year-old author Chi Zijian, from Heilongjiang province, has already won several awards, including the Lu Xun Literature Prize, and the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize, for her best-selling novel, Right Bank of the Ergun (E'erguna He You'an).

Magic mediums and their messages

The Ergun River plays a crucial role in Chi Zijian's novel Right Bank of the Ergun. A tributary of the Amur River, it was established as the Sino-Russian border by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. The folk tales recounted by the characters tell how they were long ago driven from their ancestral homeland on the left bank by the Russian army, and are now "exiled" to the right bank.