2010年4月28日星期三

Angelina Jolie reportedly asked Brad Pitt to marry her.

The actress - who earlier this month was reported to be preparing to tie the knot with her long-term partner - is said to have decided it was time to make Brad her husband during the couple's stay in Venice, where Angelina was shooting new movie 'The Tourist'.
A source said: "Angelina has fallen in love with Brad all over again - and she wants to make it official by getting married. Once she made up her mind the only thing left to do was tell Brad."
Rumours are rife the ceremony will take place at Brad's close friend George Clooney's Italian villa on Lake Como and the pair's oldest four children, Maddox, eight, Pax, six, Zahara, five, and three-year-old Shiloh, will have big roles on the special day.
Brad's parents, Bill and Jane, are also said to be delighted at the news of the nuptials and are looking forward to seeing their son wed for the second time. His first wife was Jennifer Aniston.
Another source told National Enquirer magazine: "Bill and Jane have never been entirely comfortable with the idea of he and Angie cohabiting, so they are thrilled."
Brad, 46, and Angelina, 34, also have 21-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne together.

2010年4月27日星期二

Mercedes-Benz launched its new car, SLS AMG, at Auto China 2010 on Friday.
Car enthusiasts are in for a treat with some of the world's best and most expensive cars at the Auto China 2010 exhibition.
The show, which opened at the new China International Exhibition Center on Friday, run until May 2.
The newest vehicles from around the world are on show, giving buyers of the ever-growing elite car market an eyeful.
Some of Europe's top luxury carmakers will make their presence felt, with exhibits that will make the enthusiast's mouth water.
About the most expensive car at the show will be the 736-kilowatt Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, which has a price tag of 13.4 million yuan. The Veyron is powered by a W16 engine that can power the car to more than 400 km/h and accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in just 2.5 seconds.
But there will be cheaper cars on show, including the latest Rolls-Royce Ghost and the Ferrari 458 Italia. Each will sell for about 4 million yuan. And if your budget can't quite stretch to that, there will be the Porsche 911 Turbo S, Bentley Continental Suportsport and the Maserati GranCabrio, all estimated to cost around the 3 million mark.

Sales of luxury marques such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley had a year-on-year growth of 208 percent, said Guo Yong, director of the information center of Yayuncun Auto Market.
Last month, more than 200 luxury cars were sold from the dealers - the biggest auto market in Beijing - including 52 Mercedes-Benz S-class, 40 BMW 7-series and 56 Audi Q7 and Q5 SUVs. In addition, 73 Porsches were sold.
Cars that are energy saving and emit lower levels of carbon are getting increasingly popular, he said.
"Diesel vehicles are gradually being accepted by the market, and imported diesel cars such as the Volkswagan Touareg 3.0TDI, Audi Q7 3.0TDI and Land Rover Freelander 2.2L have sold very well," he said.
Statistics from Ernst & Young Consulting show that the high-end car market in China will keep increasing by 10 percent every year.
Sales of high-end Audis in China now make up 20 percent of the company's global sales.
In the first quarter of 2010, Audi sold 51,449 cars in China, an increase of 77 percent over the same period last year.
Li Dan, auto analyst of China Galaxy Securities Research, said luxury car sales "depend more on the increasing wealth of the customers".
"Since the start of the year, many people accumulated wealth quite easily due to the expanding real estate industry and have become willing to spend more on replacing their cars," Li said.
The China Luxury Goods Consumption Report, prepared by Nankai University, show that luxury goods consumers are different from their Western counterparts.
In China, more consumers buy luxury goods to show off, and to express their social status, but in Western countries, the rich buy show their personal preference.
Ji Sensen is such the Chinese elite. Ji, 42, recently spent three million yuan on a Mercedes-Benz S600.
"I bought it because I love the brand; but more importantly, it is a symbol of my financial strength," he said. "After I bought this car, my business did better than before."

2010年4月23日星期五


Headed home from a long day at work, suddenly you detect a delicious scent, one you follow to the subway entrance, where you find a vendor selling what looks like a bread roll stuffed with shredded meat and veggies. You're so hungry you order one – okay, two – and chow down, happy to have something resembling a sandwich.But what exactly did you just scarf? Probably donkey meat. Yes, you read that right: you've been eating ass sandwiches.The buns are freshly baked, bready pastries, coated in crispy sesame seeds on the outside, steaming hot and soft on the inside. Stuffed with braised, shredded donkey meat, fresh coriander and sometimes green peppers, this delicious (if salty) street snack, lü rou huoshao, sells for anywhere from 3 to 6 yuan.Supposedly originating from Hebei Province, the eating of donkey meat has a 300-year history; methods of cooking and parts involved vary as greatly as the origin myths. One legend states that during the Ming Dynasty, Prince Zhu Di rebelled against the emperor, his nephew. He lost his first war and was so short of food that his soldiers started to serve him horsemeat-stuffed bread rolls. Later, when he became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the popularity of these bread rolls spread. However, horses were still valuable, so donkeys were used instead.

2010年4月22日星期四

In this Sept. 24, 1981 file photo Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee at the 11th Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden, West Germany. Former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch died Wednesday April 21, 2010 according to . He was 89. The Quiron Hospital in Barcelona says Samaranch died after being admitted with heart problems.
Appointed honorary life president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) when he stepped down as president in 2001, Samaranch was admitted to the Quiron clinic in his native Barcelona on Sunday with acute heart problems and passed away at 1325 local time (1125 GMT) on Wednesday.
He had died as a result of "cardio-respiratory failure" hospital doctor Rafael Esteban said in a statement.
"I cannot find the words to express the distress of the Olympic Family," IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
"We have lost a great man, a mentor and a friend who dedicated his long and fulfilled life to Olympism."
Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 London Olympics organising committee, said he had been deprived of a friend and the world had lost an inspirational man.
"A man that challenged us all to fight for sport, its primacy and its autonomy, a fight he led fearlessly from the front creating an extraordinary sporting movement that reaches millions of people around the world," Coe said.
"He was quite simply the most intuitive leader I have ever met."

2010年4月21日星期三

Reigning world champion Jenson Button held off teammate Lewis Hamilton to win a traditionally wet Chinese Grand Prix for McLaren on Sunday and see him replace Ferrari's Felipe Massa atop the driver standings."It is my best victory," said Button, who started from fifth on the grid, one ahead of Hamilton. Button benefited from prudent tire changes as patchy rain played havoc with all the drivers and gave them different conditions to deal with on each lap."It wasn't just the luck of calling the weather, we also had the pace," said the British, who joked that he was going to hire a car and race the other F1 drivers back to Europe as a volcanic ice cloud from Iceland continues to throw world air traffic into chaos."We still don't know where we are in the dry, but we've proved what we can do in the wet," he added. McLaren, which now leads Ferrari by 19 points in the constructor standings, has found itself playing second-fiddle to the faster Red Bulls and Ferraris this season .

2010年4月20日星期二

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