BEIJING - A CHINESE scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored on Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
TAIPEI - TAIWANESE breeders said on Saturday they are hoping to make huge profits from a rare species of ornamental shrimp after a pair sold for US$8,500 (S$11,836) at auction.
KARACHI (Pakistan) - SOME women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with her shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.
LOS ANGELES - R&B singer Rihanna broke her silence on Friday about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her, saying he had bitten her, put her in a headlock and left her bleeding and swollen.
'It wasn't the same person that says 'I love you.' It was not those...eyes,' Rihanna, 21, told Diane Sawyer in an interview on ABC television's Good Morning America show. 'He had...no soul in his eyes. Just blank...He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him.'
