LONDON - Jean-Baptiste Alaize is known as the 'Lion', not for his considerable paraathletics achievements but for surviving horrific wounds sustained in Burundi's civil war over two decades ago, he told AFP.
LONDON - American Kori Carter pulled off another of the numerous shocks at the world championships on Thursday, achieving the rare feat of winning the 400 meters hurdles title from the outside lane.
LONDON - Double Olympic champion Christian Taylor continued his dominance of the triple jump when he won his third world title on Thursday, once again beating fellow American Will Claye into second place.
LONDON - Among the eight sprinters lined up at the start of the world 200 meters final and the 56,000 people in the crowd watching, only one man probably thought Ramil Guliyev would be the winner, and that was the Azerbaijan-born Turk himself.
China urged the United States to act "prudently" and make a fair ruling on planned anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminum foil. That is necessary to avoid any potential negative impact of such duties on bilateral trade ties, said the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.
Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, rolled out an online marketplace for rented homes on Tuesday, the first of its kind in China. The system enables the completion of every step of renting a home on the internet.
The Chinese economy may be hitting the bottom rung of its growth cycle or will bottom out in one or two years, according to a leading academic and former top government advisor.
The Standard Hotel, a symbol of chic in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, could be going to a Chinese buyer.
Tight policies will continue in the real estate sector until next year as the government guards against financial risk.
Officials from Dalian, in northeastern Liaoning province, said their city has been tapped as one of six key cities chosen to participate in a special zone - called the Cruise Tourism Development Pilot Area - that aims to boost China's rapidly-evolving cruise liner industry.
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