Actor and kung fu expert Jet Li says he’s given up the martial arts genre for more sensitive fare, Shanghai newspapers reported today.

Three baby girls have been found abandoned in Shanghai – two of them dead and the other still alive inside a plastic bag stuffed in a rubbish bin, newspapers reported.

Beijing’s new mayor has been fired after the Chinese capital announced a nearly tenfold increase in cases of the deadly Sars disease, boosting its total from 37 to 346.