Mock marriage fest for 1-year-olds on Chinese Valentine’s day!

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese couple, who has been married for less than three months, has signed an agreement for a six-month trial separation to figure out what they wanted from their lives. The woman, surnamed Zhang, 26, a resident of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, said that she met Shi online last November and they got married in April this year, reports the China Daily.

September 9th, 2009 BEIJING - Tens of thousands of Chinese couples rushed to tie the knot across the country to mark Wednesday's special date 09/09/09, hoping that the "triple 9 day" will bring them luck and eternal love. In Mandarin Chinese, the number "9" is pronounced the same as the word "jiu" which means "forever, perpetual or eternal".

September 2nd, 2009 TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi celebrated 40 years in power with a huge open-air event including 400 dancers, acrobats and gruesome mock hangings. According to The Sun, the event was lit up by an eerie green light, and is his stooges faked being "corpses" on wooden gallows.

August 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese farmer has finally gotten a divorce from his wife, who had used a fake ID card to get married to him in 2005, and who then disappeared after just five days of marriage. Xiao Chen, 31, a resident of Lishui, Zhejiang province married Huang Hai, a woman from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, just two weeks after meeting her, reports the China Daily.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A groom in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, left wedding guests shocked when he disclosed that he had been wooing his ladylove over the phone for the past four years.he bridegroom also showed a 70-m-phone bill to his guests at the marriage ceremony. The couple got married last Thursday and had never met each other, before the women agreed to the marriage, reports China daily.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A mother of triplets from Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, could not contain her excitement when she came to know that all three of her daughters got admission into the same university in Sichuan province. Nineteen-year-olds Wang Anyi, Wang Anran and Wang Anqi will also major in the same subject at the Chengdu University of Technology, reports the China Daily.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - People in Chinese county believe that abstinence from marriage and sex is the key to longevity. According to local customs, most people in Bama county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, marry late and produce children later than others.

June 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Commuters of the Delhi Metro were caught by surprise Sunday when a series of mock drills conducted at five metro sites caused rail traffic to come to a standstill for over 40 minutes. Starting 8 a.m., the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) staged mock drills wherein scenes depicting terrorist attacks and serial bomb blasts were created simultaneously in five different metro premises, a DMRC statement said.

June 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - From the time humans came to being, males have been dubbed "bread-winners". Even in today's times, a man is expected to look after the family and make decisions concerning financial matters.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Antonello Zappadu, the photographer whose controversial photos of topless young women bathing in Silvio Berlusconi's Sardinian villa appeared in a Spanish newspaper, has hinted that there are more pictures to come. In his first interview with a British newspaper, Zappadu has revealed that the unseen pictures show guests at Berlusconi's private paradise of Villa Certosa, and some snaps include a "mock marriage" between the Italian Prime Minister and a woman in her twenties.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese couple, who fell in love with each other a year ago, have decided to get a sex change operation before they marry. The two, both 23, from Yichang, Hubei province, plan to get several operations done, as the woman wants to become a man, and the man wants to become a woman, reports the China Daily.

April 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - Miss California Carrie Prejean got a boob job done six weeks before competing in the Miss USA competition. Miss California pageant directors told 'Access Hollywood' that Prejean was gifted with a new pair of knockers before the beauty pageant, reports the New York Daily News.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Filmmaker Mani Kaul, who has made movies like 'Uski Roti' (1970), 'Duvidha' (1973), has taken over as the new director general of the Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. Kaul succeeds film historian Aruna Vasudev, who retired after the 10th edition of the fest last year.

April 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A former top adviser to former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Steve Schmidt, has warned the Grand Old Party (GOP) against becoming a `religious party'. Schmidt told a Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans -- a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans, that the GOP must shift their views on gay marriage.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mischa Barton has admitted that she is 'not a huge fan' of marriage because it puts too much pressure on the relationship. The 23-year-old beauty believes that marriage eventually leads to break-up because people don't feel the need to work at relationships anymore, reports the China Daily.