Large-scale sand sculptures is shown in these pictures taken in the Haiyang International Sand Sculpture Park, east China’s Shandong Province

Virgin Atlantic is to increase its frequency between London Heathrow and Hong Kong from daily to twice a day from October.
Flight VS238 will operate three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 28 October and then daily from 4 December. It will depart London Heathrow Terminal 3 at 16.00, arriving in Hong Kong [...]

Organizers of the Olympic torch relay said Monday the flame’s arrival in Tibet would be postponed, but declined to give an exact date for the torch’s journey through the region, which has been shrouded in secrecy.
The torch was originally supposed to travel through Tibet on June 18 or 19 before heading to China’s largely Muslim [...]

This Article was taken from Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
  
‘Weather modification’ team will manipulate the clouds in summer to try to keep the open-air stadium dry 

It is yet another attempt by man to triumph over nature.
Determined not to let anything spoil their party, organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics [...]