• Movie star's $46,000 'muscles' spark heated debate online

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  While female movie-goers are blown away by the muscular tough guy in a current big-screen hit, it turns out that the muscles and scars they saw are all fake latex make-up, reported thepaper.cn.

• Gay men ask court for right to marry

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  A court in Central China's Hunan province has accepted a case of two homosexuals who sued the government agency for not allowing them to register their marriage.

• Mourners pay respect to Chinese student killed in US shooting

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  Mourners place flowers at the site where Chinese student Jiang Yue was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident on Jan 16 in Temple, Arizona. A memorial was held Monday afternoon at the location where more than 200 people, including the victim's fellow students, members of the Chinese community and local residents, gathered to mourn her death.

• Police rescue 15 babies from child-trafficking ring, dozens nabbed

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  Police rescue 15 babies from child-trafficking ring, dozens nabbed

• Granny, 72, Keeps Fit Gracefully

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  A 72-year-old woman makes postures during her routine exercise at a park in Xi'an city, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The woman surnamed Wang said that after surgery failed to cure pains in her arms, waist and legs four years ago, she began to practice various body movements. Wang said she is now healthy and "in a good mood."

• Stop! In the Name of Love: China SWAT Team Arrange Joint Wedding

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  Ten SWAT police officers held their wedding ceremony in a special but romantic method in Shaoxing, a city in east China's Zhejiang Province, on January 10, a day which spells the same as China's emergency call 110.

• Cold wave sweeps across China

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  Cold wave sweeps across China

• Chinese Netizens Help Sick US Boy "Become Famous in China"

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  Thousands of Chinese Internet users are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken boy from the United States to realize his dream.

• How the world gives thanks

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  Thanksgiving, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November originated in the fall of 1621; when the Pilgrims commemorate their first harvest. The holiday has since become a day where families are consumed by disagreement and drunken friends gather to eat loads of turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, before lounging in front of the TV or battling strangers during midnight Black Friday sales. But while this fall holiday seems uniquely American, Americans are not the only culture to celebrate bountiful harvest.

• How Serial Killers Terrorize China's Disorganized Elder Care Industry

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  Two women in poorly governed caregiver business hopped from job to job in Guangdong Province killing patients so they could get quick paychecks