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Australia's inexperienced men's 4x100 metres freestyle relay team provided a massive boilover on the first day of pool competition, while China completed their sweep of titles in the diving at the world swimming championships Sunday.

Iran and China are discussing using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as U.S. sanctions have blocked China from paying at least $20 billion for oil, the Financial Times said.

The recent revelation of fake Apple stores located in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming,Yunnan highlights its infringing patents and copyrights culture. Visitors are fooled by elaborately constructed replicas of commercial products in China known as a counterfeit haven.

Tae-hwan Park, 21, the Beijing Olympics champion, won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai with a time of 3:42.04 seconds.

As industry observers point to a September release date for the iPhone 5, surprising analysis shows that the previous iPhone is still selling strongly on U.S. carriers.

His campaign is taking time to take off and seeing some personnel shake-ups

A top North Korea diplomat will visit New York this week to explore resuming six-country nuclear negotiations that ended in 2008 when North Korea walk out of talks.

Some countries have banned certain names which are odd, blasphemous, numbers or symbols

Though Apple’s Web site talks about Apple stores only in Beijing and Shanghai in China, there seems to be another store in Kumming. It is a fake Apple store, which is build and designed to look like the real store.

At least 35 people have died and 210 were injured following a collision between two high-speed bullet trains in China. The freak accident happened after lightning struck a train that lost power and was subsequently rear-ended by another train on an elevated track in Wenzhou.

At least 16 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in China in a freak accident that also sent scores to the hospital.

As industry observers point to a September release date for the iPhone 5, surprising analysis shows that the previous iPhone is still selling strongly on U.S. carriers.

Former Chinese fugitive, Mr Lai was immediately arrested after landing in Beijing on Saturday, he had been put on a Beijing-bound Air Canada flight from Vancouver Friday after a court cleared the way Thursday for his extradition

The recent news of Chinese counterfeiting Apple stores and products has triggered inspections from Kunming authorities after customers and staff were fooled by fake products. Near perfect replications of Apple devices and stores will make challenging work for those going in to differentiate genuine from counterfeit items. The discovered fake Apple stores covered all the details from furniture display, a Genius Bar, product layout, signage, and staff uniforms.

At least 16 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in China in a freak accident that also sent scores to the hospital.

At least 16 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in China in a freak accident that also sent scores to the hospital.

Right now, one of the most famous Apple Stores in the world is in Kunming, the capital of China's mountainous southwestern Yunnan province - and its fame comes from the fact it's not a real Apple Store.

The much-awaited next generation iPhone (dubbed iPhone 5) from Apple will debut on September 5, followed by a global release a month later, according to a senior Swisscom executive.

Is there a way to get a quick-read on the U.S. economy, for those who are time-pressed, and don't have time to review the latest economic reports from the U.S. Federal Reserve? Indeed there is: review the performance of diversified industrial giant General Electric (GE).

An American blogger and her husband came across an genuine-looking Apple Store in the city of Kunming, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest genuine Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai. The store has signs and products which look so real that even its employees thought they were working for Steve Jobs, reported The Daily Mail. But notice, a real Apple Store would not put up an Apple Store sign.

Russia, which boycotted the Nobel ceremony on Friday, suggested that the Norwegian Committee should award a peace prize to Julian Assange. In an unusual move, Moscow called upon Rights group to rally support for the whistle-blower. Meanwhile, snubbing the communist China, the Nobel Prize committee has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.