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Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday that researchers with China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force were working on refining the technology behind a classified model of hypersonic drone, although it was unclear whether such a vehicle was already in service. The paper published on September 1 appeared in the bi-monthly Chinese journal Tactical Missile Technology. Dai Fei, of Beihang University in Beijing, conducted the study with four others and the College of Automation Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics....

China has been taking strict measures to combat the virus, and authorities in the city of Harbin said the action was necessary. There is no available treatment for animals with COVID-19 and they posed a danger to their owner and other residents in the apartment complex, Beijing News online said. There have been 75 virus cases recently discovered in Harbin, including the cats’ owner who tested positive on Sept. 21....

As the death toll of the deadly outbreak tops 1,100, health authorities in the country have rolled out mobile software that comes with a “close contact detector” showing potential victims on a map. It was made public last Saturday, the state’s Xinhua News Agency reported. Images of the software have since been posted to Twitter, with possible coronavirus infections seen marked with large red dots. According to the South China Morning Post, the app is fed data from China’s vast surveillance apparatus, which is known to retain large amounts of personal information on its own citizens....

In a social media post on the eve of the Lunar New Year on Saturday, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the first nationwide wave had swept through roughly 80 percent of China’s 1.41 billion people since early December. Wu’s estimate of 1.13 billion infections in just six weeks far exceeds the global case count of 669 million as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University....

Xi told the former vice president that the healthy and stable development of China-U.S. relations was not only mutually beneficial to the peoples of both nations, but also the “common expectation” of the international community, Xinhua News Agency said. The Chinese president expressed a hope for Beijing and Washington to uphold principles of “no conflict and no confrontation,” the report said. Xi also called for mutual respect, a “win-win spirit,” a focus on cooperation as well as a reining in of disagreements....

Tianjin Teda officials have met with their Sporting counterparts in recent days and are prepared to spend eight million euros ($10.5 million) to secure the 31-year-old, according to Portguese portal Uol Esporte, reports Xinhua. Elias has been used sparingly by Sporting coach Jorge Jesus since his three million-euro (around $3.9 million) move from Brazil’s Corinthians in August. Elias, who has been capped 35 times for Brazil, was linked to Tianjin Teda’s Chinese rivals Hebei Fortune and Shandong Luneng earlier this year....

Thirteen aircraft were seen flying toward Taiwan Monday morning, Reuters reported, down from a significantly larger mission that saw 39 jets approach the island in January. The January mission was the largest such mission conducted by China since over 50 aircraft were used for another similar mission last October, Newsweek reported. Taiwan’s government has complained of similar missions in recent years, when Chinese jets have approached the island that the Chinese government claims as part of its territory, according to Reuters....

“For the small minority who endanger national security, this law will be a sword hanging over their heads,” said China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, according to the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP). China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said President Xi Jinping signed the law on Tuesday following a unanimous vote to adopt it by all 163 members of China’s top legislative body, the HKFP reported. Despite referring to the new law as a sword, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said that for the vast majority of Hong Kong residents and foreigners there, the measure is a “guardian spirit that protects their freedoms,” according to the HKFP....

Suzy_Z_ is an influencer popular on Chinese site Bilibili, where she has over 1 million followers. In April 2020, the influencer shared a video in which she darkened her skin using black makeup, and introduced herself as the “Wakanda Queen.” A year later and the video has been discovered far wider than just China, and has caused backlash online over the apparent use of blackface. The video sees Suzy cover her whole top half in dark makeup before continuing with the tutorial....

Officials planning the milestone event marking 100 years since the party’s founding previously announced there would not be a traditional military parade at the ceremony kicking off in Beijing on July 1. However, an image captured by a social media user in the city of Baoding, in the central Hebei province, showed 29 military helicopters flying at low altitude and forming the number “100”—an apparent reference to the upcoming centennial....

Zhou Shengni, a nurse at the Shanghai East Hospital, began struggling to breathe on March 23 and was rushed to the hospital by her family. Upon arrival, she found the emergency department closed so that it could be disinfected from COVID-19 exposure as part of China’s nationwide antivirus measures. The only other emergency hospital open was in the Pudong District, where she later passed away. Shanghai reported 1,609 cases of COVID-19 on Friday....

Haverty may be right. But thunderclouds have crept onto Blockbuster’s horizon. Competition is stiffening and the video industry’s meteoric growth is finally leveling off. Walt Disney, for instance, recently entered the rental business and tiny Hollywood Video is growing -rapidly. Viacom is so concerned that it sued the smaller 120-store chain two weeks ago, alleging that, among other things, it illegally raided Blockbuster’s employees. More worrisome are two messy lawsuits in Texas stemming from a 1989 acquisition by Blockbuster....

Types of Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis can develop in any joint, but these are some of the most common places it’s found. Degenerative joint disease Knees Runners and individuals with extra body weight are prone to wear and tear of the knees. A condition called patellofemoral (PF) chondrosis describes cartilage loss on the surface of the kneecap. Another term for the condition is chondromalacia, and its severity is graded on a scale from one to four....

The Austin Police Department arrested Beard early Monday, per the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. He was booked at 4:18 a.m. local time on a third-degree felony charge of “assault on family/household member impede breath circulation.” According to the Austin American-Statesman, Austin police responded to a home at 2:07 a.m. following a disturbance call. Beard was still in jail as of 9 a.m. local time Monday. Austin police tweeted Beard’s mugshot on Monday afternoon, along with a press release stating, “APD officers responded and located a woman who stated she had been assaulted and strangled by Christopher Michael Beard” after receiving a call at 12:15 a....

The Red Raiders trailed 77-71 with 23.5 seconds left in their game against the West Virginia Mountaineers when Beard moved towards halfcourt and began shouting at the officials during a timeout. As one of his assistants tried to placate him and redirect him towards the bench, Beard, a two-time Big 12 Coach of The Year, continued yelling at the referees before theatrically dropping to the floor and gesturing for a timeout....

Beard’s accuser, his fiancee, called police in Austin the morning of Dec. 12 to claim Beard assaulted and strangled her. Beard was eventually booked into Travis County Jail on a third-degree felony charge of “assault on a family/household member-impede breath circulation.” In a statement released Friday through her attorney, the woman said that the Longhorns coach did not strangle her. She also said she “does not refute” Beard’s assertion that he was acting in self-defense....

Pence spoke at a Federalist Society event in Florida on Friday and pushed back against Trump’s claim that he had the power as vice president to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory during the formal certification process in Congress on January 6, 2021. The former vice president asserted that Trump “is wrong,” resulting in the former president releasing a statement later in the day criticizing him. Christie supported Trump in 2016 and again in 2020—even helping the former president prepare for a debate against then Democratic presidential candidate Biden....

On Tuesday, a Twitter user named Simoné, who uses the handle @girlpowertbh started a thread in which she shared screenshots of DM conversations alleging to be between herself and D’Elia when she was 16-year-old in 2014. She wrote: “for the longest time i thought it was embarrassing for ME that i was interacting with this older man but he was the one who DM’d me on twitter and was the one who was twice my age and was the one that used the power imbalance between us to his advantage so f*** chris d’elia....

Evans shared that if Marvel Studios were to try to reintroduce him into their newest phase (which is now the multiverse), Human Torch would be more of a selling point than a return as Steve Rogers’ Captain America. Evans expressed how sentimental Cap is to him as a character, and that he would not want to disrupt the send-off he received in Avengers: Endgame. RELATED: Did Chris Evans Make A Better Human Torch Or Captain America?...