K-drama hits 100 million views

The Sound Of Your Heart, a South Korean Web drama based on a cartoon and starring Lee Kwang Soo, has hit 100 million views on Chinese online portal Sohu, says Yonhap News Agency, despite Chinese government restrictions on Korean cultural content.

The restrictions were imposed after South Korea angered China by deciding to deploy a United States anti-missile system on its soil. On Korean online portal Naver, the show has hit more than 29 million views to become the country's most watched Web drama ever.

Hairdresser who invented blow-dry styling died last month

Ms Rose Evansky, a British hairdresser who liberated women from the prison of the head-encasing domed dryer when she invented blow-dry styling at her London salon in the early 1960s, died on Nov 21. She was 94. Her death was reported only recently by the British news media.