China’s Xie Siyi burst into tears after winning the men’s 3m springboard gold at the world aquatic championships on Thursday as reigning Olympic champion Cao Yuan finished a lowly 10th. Having won the 1m springboard title at the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Xie made a seamless transition to the higher height in Budapest to … Read more
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is blunt. When he wanted to make a political statement about crackdowns on dissent, he brought portraits of 176 political prisoners to one of America’s most infamous high-security federal prisons. “Trace,” first shown at Alcatraz prison off the San Francisco Bay in 2014, opened Wednesday in Washington for a six-month run … Read more
A 35-year-old man was rushed to hospital after putting 15 sewing needles into his penis in search of ‘excitement’, Chinese doctors have said. The man had the needles in his penis for around one year and sought out medical advice after suddenly feeling intense pain and seeing blood while urinating. Doctors spent an hour and … Read more