July 10, 2009 Friday
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What's on: Life! picks for Saturday

 
Seeing is disbelieving

THE notion of photographs being a record of reality is turned on its head by this year's UOB Painting Of The Year artist Zhao Renhui.

French are worst tourists

PARIS - PENNY-PINCHING, rude and terrible at foreign languages: French people are the world's worst tourists according to a study of the global hotel industry released on Thursday.

Carried out last month by TNS Infratest, the study asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip.

Spanish bull run kills 1

MADRID - A MAN was gored to death by a bull on Friday during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in northern Spain, which attracts tourists from across the world, organisers said.

Mr Daniel Jimeno, a 27 year-old Spaniard, was gored in the neck after one of the bulls veered into a group of runners, a Navarre regional government official told reporters.

   
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