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Controversy over whether He Kexin, gold medallist in the uneven bars, is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics.

On Friday, the IOC finally stood up to China and asked the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) to investigate the ages of certain members of China’s women gymnastics team. Even before the Olympics began, there was evidence that He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, and Yang Yilin did not meet the minimum age requirement to compete in the Olympics.

The team from China, Cheng Fei, Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan and Yang Yilin, bagged the Women’s Gymnastics (Artistic) Team Event gold with 188.900 points. United States team had silver with 186.525 points, Romania at

In Sichuan China, a doctor preformed an X-ray on a 90 year-old woman and found that she was carrying a dead fetus for 58 years.

The old lady named Wong, lives in Qing Sheng Province. In February this year, she hurt her back while she was trying to carry a bucket of water. The family took her to the hospital 2 months later for an X-ray. That’s when the doctors found out that there was a dead fetus in her uterus, though it was severely distorted.

A 20 year old man, apparently dissatisfied with his genital surgery killed a 71 year old doctor by stabbing him with a pair of scissors

BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Czech markswoman Katerina Emmons led all the way to snatch the gold medal in women's 10-meter air rifle, the first gold of the 29th Olympics.

Lip-synching performers shall have no place in China’s biggest TV show, held to celebrate Chinese New Year. China broadcasting regulator has ordered organisers to pick "real" singers and songs with "healthy" lyrics. The CCTV Spring Festival Gala includes comedy sketches and patriotic-themed song-and-dance routines, attracting hundreds of millions of viewers.

There have been questions about Chinese prospect Yi Jianlian's age since Yi became a prospect. Chinese officials insist he's now 19, while there have been rumors he's actually three years older. And of course, three years is a long time in terms of basketball development. A raw 19-year-old is Andrew Bynum. A raw 22-year-old is... Kendrick Perkins.

China’s white river dolphin appears to now be extinct, according to a team of biologists that spent six weeks searching for it in its usual habitat of the Yangtze River. This makes it the first mammal globally to become extinct in the past 50 years, despite private attempts to preserve the animal. China’s rapid industrialization and pollution of the Yangtze River have largely been to blame, with no serious attempts by government to act to save the 25 million year old species.