China's southern city of Shenzhen launched its first Europe-bound freight train on Monday, becoming the 29th Chinese city to introduce rail service to Europe. First Islamic bank opens in Morocco after long-time rejection The first Islamic bank has opened in Morocco after a long time of rejectio...
Now, people can just go there for a little Olympic- level entertainment.Athens, Greece (1896 and 2004)Home to the first modern Olympic games in 1896, Athens' history of theOlympic tradition dates back several thousand years. Every four years, the Olympic torch is lit at the Panathenaic ...
The Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saw the United States finish atop the gold medal standings in swimming for the eighth consecutive Olympic Games. However, the margin was smaller than at any of the prior seven thanks to an all-time performance by Australia, wh...
The two-hour modern calligraphy class (£50) was hosted last night at John Lewis White City as part of their new in-store experiences. It was held in the Discovery Room – a quiet, peaceful room on the third floor, which didn’t make you feel as though you were in the middle of ...
A funky as fuck amalgamation of the first two albums, brewed in a steaming pot of shake-your-arse funk with a difference. The whole album sounds like a concept of some low-down dirty funk club hidden in the back streets of New York coming out of London’s Soho. ...
1986: Possessed, 'Beyond the Gates' Possessed take 1986 by default as the lone arguably death metal release of the year, ‘Beyond the Gates’. Sepultura’s ‘Morbid Visions’ fell more in line with the first wave of black metal than the rumblings of the newborn death metal genre, leading...
Modern sport has generated an enormous amount of politics in China, because of the nature of the government's control of sport. The Chinese Communists use sport to obtain power in the international sports world. However, during the power-control process there are clashes of values and interests...
held. In 1924 the winter games began in Chamonix, France. The summer and winter games are each held every four years. Until 1992, they were both held in the same year. Since then, the summer games are held during the first year of an Olympiad, the winter games during the third year....
The modern Olympic games have many foot races and field sports programs. The longest race in the games is calledmarathon. Before the start of the Olympic Games, runners carry lighted torch(火炬) through many nations towards the stadium where the games will be held. These sportsmen are from ...
The Olympic flame, already lit at Olympia in Greece and taken to Japan for a now-cancelled torch relay, would stay in the host nation as a symbol of hope. "We came to the conclusion that, in order to safeguard the health of the athletes and everybody involved in the Olympic Games, we...