ChinaNew law in Shenzhen means buildings can be developed with 95%, rather than 100%, support from residents – promoting concern over erosion of rights They stand as eyesores to most passers by and potential public health risks to authorities, decaying buildings wrapped in tangles of exposed wire, studded with protruding leaky plastic pipes, vegetation billowing from cracks and terraces where particulates from polluted air have accumulated over time. With skyscrapers and ultramodern developments on every side, some of these “nail houses” are also sitting on land worth millions of dollars in Shenzhen’s inferno of a property market, where new-unit and second-hand home prices rival London.

The world itself is an illusion, and David Blaine has added more of it. As an illusionist and endurance artist, he has performed frozen in a block of ice, starving, and hovering, as well as standing on a 100-foot pole in New York for 35 hours. David, known for his life-threatening acts, has included his daughter Dessa Blaine in his new documentary of ABC entitled David Blaine: The Magic Way, where she performed a card trick.

Jason Aldean is presently married to singer and former American Idol contestant Brittany Kerr. The country music singer and songwriter, 44, and his wife also share two adorable kids: Memphis Aldean and Navy Rome Williams. However, Aldean's present wife Kerr is not his first wife, as he was first married to Jessica Ann Ussery. He was married to his first wife from 2001 to 2013. Like with Kerr, the singer was also blessed with two daughters from his marriage to Ussery.

Some games are more than just competition between two teams or players. Like baseball for Americans, which is intensely decorated in people’s hearts and souls. Baseball is a classic yet glorious sport for Americans. Jason Castro is one of those Americans who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, and San Diego Padres from 2010 to 2022. People call him a complete player.

Reading groupOrhan PamukOrhan Pamuk's Snow: a book about 'other' people – and therefore usWhether you read it after 9/11 or Trump’s election, Pamuk’s 2004 novel seems endlessly timely. How did he do it? “It comes as a surprise that political prescience should be yet another of the many gifts of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk,” wrote Stephen O’Shea when he reviewed Snow in the Independent in May 2004. Months later, Margaret Atwood also described the novel as “eerily prescient” in the New York Times, specifically the novel’s handling of fundamentalism, as it was written before 9/11.