WHEN Professor Fan Hong returned to China after studying abroad, she stopped in the neighbourhood where she thought she had lived and wondered where her home had gone.

China celebrated its rise to a world power over 60 years of Communist Party rule today, with its biggest-ever parade of military hardware and more than 100,000 marching masses.

A brochure advertising sex films created quite a stir amongst pharmacists, clergy and politicians, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Soldiers today continued to search for hundreds of students thought to have been taken hostage by communist rebels in a mountainous area of western Nepal, a day after rescuing some 600 children, officials said.