Al-Jazeera: 70 year old Beijing resident He Linyuan has taken close to 10,000 photographs of the Bird's Nest
Al-Jazeera: Dan Nolan reports from the Danjiangkou reservoir in Hubei province on the government's controversial and costly engineering project to transfer water from south to north to feed the Chinese capital.
AP: The mother and sisters of Michael Phelps on his chances at the Beijing Olympics
AP: Bush balances Olympics and diplomacy in Beijing
AP: Members of the US basketball team visit the Great Wall
AP: The US Olympic Committee takes over a part of the Beijing Normal University
NoCommentTV: Protests in Kathmandu, Nepal on the opening day of the Olympics
NoCommentTV: Tibetans in Dharamsala, India march through the streets in prayers one day before the Olympics open
WSJ: Beijing realises it has to mind its manners as China opens its doors to the world



--Protests in Kathmandu?
Oh, boy, from their uniform everybody can see they are PLA in Lhasa. Definitely!
Ask BBC, CNN, FOX, BTV, ZDF, ARD, ACTUAEL, BILD, SPIEGEL, they'll tell you if I am right.
Meanhwile I have no problem atching our Tibeten brothers still on made-in-China shoes, in shanty town far from their dazzling home Lhasa.