A vast floor within London's Tate Modern art gallery has been carpeted with more than 100 million “sunflower seeds” – the latest commission in the annual Unilever Series.

Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century

IT was a left foot Lionel Messi would have been proud of.

By Jan Wong

The only grandson of China’s revolutionary leader Chairman Mao has been made the youngest general in the People’s Liberation Army at the age of 39.

AS THE official anthem of Kazakhstan began to fade, the unofficial anthem of Ireland began to pound out from a corner of the Workers’ Gymnasium in the minutes before Kenny Egan took the ring for yesterday’s Olympic Light Heavyweight gold medal bout.

A LITTLE over 20 minutes after Constantina Tomescu won the Olympic Women’s Marathon, Pauline Curley jogged into Beijing’s National Stadium to begin her own victory lap.

ONCE-RECLUSIVE China commandeered the world stage yesterday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivalled for its mix of problems and promise.

The Olympic flame made one of its final relays today, on the eve of the Games’ opening ceremony, as torchbearers carried it along the ancient Great Wall of China.

The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour today, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has stormed out of a rehabilitation centre just days after starting therapy for cocaine addiction.

Who lives in a house like this? A new TV show is to take viewers “through the keyhole” of Saddam Hussein’s homes.