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Chinese mum pays over US$150,000 to have ‘perfect’ seven kids, bucking country’s Zhang’s family has paid more than 1 million yuan (US$155,000) in “social support fees” – effectively fines – to the local government for the privilege of giving birth to more than the permitted number of children. Until six years ago, most women in China could only bear one child.

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Without paying the fines, the children – five boys and two girls, including a set of twins, aged between one and 14 – would not have received their all-important identity documents. skincare business in Guangdong province in southern China.

She was born and raised in the Chaoshan, or Teoswa, region in eastern Guangdong where traditionally families have been large, with a preference for sons. Even so, Zhang’s brood of seven is a rarity.

“There are families with three or four kids, because Teochew people usually prefer boys to girls ... if the first two kids are girls, they’ll try for a third or fourth one, but seldom as many as I have,” Zhang said.

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Zhang’s decision to give birth to such a large number of children was not driven by gender preference, she said; her first two children were a boy and a girl. She simply hopes never to be alone.

“When my husband’s away on trips and the older kids are also away for study, I still have other children around me ... When I’m old, they can visit me in different batches,” she said.

This hidden iPhone feature just went viral on TikTok Interestingly, this is not a new feature. It was first shown off during the iOS 11 beta back in 2017. We're now currently on iOS 14, with the 14.5 public beta happening right now. But after a decade of iPhone software development, many handy features have slipped through without the majority of users noticing.

For example, with the latest iPhone, there are 10 iPhone 12 features users should enable right away. This includes managing 5G data, fine-tuning Face ID, enabling picture-in-picture video, and using Apple ProRAW for photos.

And it's not just iPhone 12 users that should catch up on all the new tricks. People using older iPhones with iOS 14 have a wide array of tools to tinker with.

Rachel Lindsay deletes Instagram account following harassment from 'Bachelor' fans Media personality Rachel Lindsay, who was "The Bachelor" franchise's first-ever Black lead in 2017, has deleted her Instagram account due to harassment and hate she has received from fans of the show.

The online harassment follows Lindsay's "Extra" interview with "The Bachelor" host Chris Harrison, during which he defended current contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, who has been under fire for resurfaced photos of her in attendance at an antebellum plantation-themed fraternity formal. After apologizing, Harrison then announced that he is "stepping aside" from the franchise for "a period of time," causing some fans to direct hateful comments toward Lindsay. "My co-host on 'Higher Learning,' Rachel Lindsay, disabled her Instagram earlier today," Lathan said. "She did it because that's how much hate she's getting from Bachelor fans, who are spamming her with all kinds of rude, hateful things to say."

In his video, Lathan said that people should "get a f------ life" and are misdirecting their anger at Lindsay, when they should be outraged at Harrison for his defense of Kirkconnell.

Canelo Alvarez vs. Avni Yildirim odds picks, predictions: Boxing insider who's 32-8 unveils best bets, props Since turning pro in 2005, Alvarez has compiled a 54-1-2 all-time record, with his only loss coming at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September 2013. William Hill Sportsbook pegs Alvarez as a -4000 favorite (risk $4,000 to win $100) in the latest Alvarez vs. Yildirim odds, with the Turkish fighter getting +1500 (risk $100 to win $1,500) as the underdog. Before making any Alvarez vs. Yildirim picks, see the latest boxing predictions from SportsLine analyst Peter Kahn.

A 2020 Boxing Writers Association of America Cus D'Amato Manager of the Year nominee, Kahn has his finger on the pulse of what's going on inside and outside of the ring. Kahn has managed numerous world champions and currently manages 20 fighters through his company, Fight Game Advisors. He can be seen and heard weekly on "The Fight Guys" on YouTube.

James Charles denies accusations of 'grooming' a 16-year-old fan James Charles, a beauty YouTuber with over 25 million subscribers, denied "grooming" a minor.

On Friday, a TikTok user who says he's 16 posted censored nude photos he says Charles sent him.

In a statement, Charles said he would ask for ID from men he pursues in the future.

You know you’re in for trouble right at the start, when the pigeons begin rapping. Tim Story’s Tom and Jerry opens to the strains of A Tribe Called Quest’s classic “Can I Kick It?” as the camera swoops over the New York City skyline and finds Tom relaxing between subway cars and Jerry looking at rental properties with a shady rat real-estate agent. (“Wait till you see the next place. It just screams ‘Mouse House.’ Wait, can I say that?”) Ignore the anachronism of lyrics like “Mr. Dinkins, will you please be my mayor?” — the idea here is presumably to situate Tom and Jerry in a modern-day version of the city. Maybe the filmmakers were just trying to cash in on the Secret Life of Pets gravy train, but it also makes some narrative sense: After all, the city is full of cats tasked with catching mice, in bodegas and apartments and even some movie theaters.

But look, this is already way too much work to do for a Tom and Jerry movie.

A cluttered, awkward, pandering mess, Tom and Jerry (which debuts on HBO Max today) is a good example of what happens when the filmmakers don’t understand (or maybe just forget) what made their subject exciting in the first place. The classic Tom and Jerry cartoons were engines of wordless slapstick joy: fast, clever, and fun. While they have certainly gone through many iterations over the decades and are maybe not as well-regarded today — with little of the surreal inventiveness of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, or the wiseass narrative intricacy of Bugs Bunny & Co. — their thundering bluntness retains a primal cinematic appeal. (Besides, for all the show’s simplicity, you could spend hours arguing over who was the good guy and who was the bad guy: the craven Tom, with his Sisyphean drive, or that ever-triumphant teacher’s pet Jerry.)

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Anyway, you’d think that a new Tom and Jerry feature film would prioritize the part where, you know, the cat chases the mouse. You would be wrong. Story’s film sidelines its title characters to focus on the efforts of Kayla (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young woman who loses her bicycle delivery job and then lies her way into a gig at a fancy hotel as it prepares for “the wedding of the century” between two celebrity influencer types, Preeta (Pallavi Sharda) and Ben (Colin Jost). Kayla immediately draws the suspicions of the hotel’s ambitious, snooty event manager Terence Mendoza (Michael Peña), even as she becomes friendly with the soon-to-be-weds. When Jerry wreaks havoc in the hotel’s fancy kitchen and strikes fear in the hearts of management on the eve of the big day (“If a picture of this mouse is tweeted to the InstaBookFace, or the Ticky Tock, we will be ruined!”), the resourceful but out-of-her-element Kayla hires Tom to catch Jerry.

For about ten minutes, at least. Tom and Jerry the film seems interested in just about everything but Tom and Jerry, with its elaborate (but somehow still totally half-assed) plot and its scenes of nonstop talk that pile unfunny jokes atop one another. These aren’t bad actors: Moretz was once one of our most promising young performers, and Peña is among our most versatile. But they’ve clearly been directed to exaggerate wildly, perhaps in an effort to match the cartoons they’re acting against. The result is a kind of gathering desperation, as if by making bigger facial expressions or talking faster the actors might be able to will laughs out of lines like “I’ll catch it, sir. Him. Or her. It could be a female. I’m not gender-biased.” (Still, it could be worse. Even as everyone else hams it up, the stone-faced Colin Jost drifts through the film, seemingly asking himself the very question that is also on the audience’s minds: Why is Colin Jost even in this movie?)

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is an open-world RPG coming to the Switch a special live-streamed event today, The Pokémon Company revealed something fans having been waiting a long time for: an open-world Pokémon adventure. The next major entry in the franchise will be called Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and it looks to be a huge evolution of the long-running RPG formula. The developers describe it as a “pre-make,” which offers “a new challenge and a new frontier for the Pokémon world.”

The story takes place in the Sinnoh region, at a period that appears to be long before other Pokémon games, and will include a number of iconic monsters like Piplup, with your choice of starters including Rowlet, Oshawott, and Cyndaquil. It’s expected to launch worldwide on the Switch in early 2022.

The Rolls-Royce Phantom Tempus is inspired by time We’re all used to seeing the Rolls-Royce Starlight Headliner by now, aren’t we? Well, in pictures at least. Anyway, check out what Rolls has done to it in this new time-inspired Phantom Tempus Collection…

Apparently, this is now a Pulsar Headliner, with fibre-optic lighting and intricate embroidery combining to recreate the rare astronomical phenomenon. For those (like us) who are wondering how that relates to time, Pulsars are dense stars found in the farthest reaches of space that ‘emit electromagnetic radiation in extremely regular pulses’. Essentially a posh clock, then.

There’s more where that came from in the Tempus Collection too. Rolls will build 20 examples of these extra special Phantoms and each will feature the new Kairos Blue exterior paint. Rolls says it has been created ‘to embody the darkness and mystery of space’ (woah) and that it uses mica flakes that sparkle like stars when they catch the light. Lovely.

On the inside there are hundreds of illuminated stars on each door, and the Phantom’s Gallery on the passenger side features a piece of aluminium art known as the ‘Frozen Flow of Time’. This is all getting very deep. Rolls has got rid of the clock – which it says signifies the owner’s freedom from time and its limitations – and has replaced it with a single billet of aluminium that’s milled to form 100 wavy columns. Pretty much everything in the Tempus Collection has a meaning, so this represents the 100-million-year period of a rotational spin of a pulsar star. Far out, man.

Oh, and to save you having to explain that meaning to everyone you offer a lift to, there’s a little description of the Gallery on an engraved plaque in the glovebox. Although you’ll then be forced to explain why there’s also an Albert Einstein quote in the glovebox. Real catch-22, that.

Instagram launches Instagram Lite, Here’s a look at the top features Instagram Lite fulfils their promise of bringing an all-new Instagram Lite app with new features. They had pulled the older version of the app earlier this year. Here's a look at the new features! Instagram Lite needs just 2 MB data to be downloadedReels and IGTV get omitted from the app Regional language support will make the app reach remote users who may not have premium smartphones

Affordable House Can Be 3D Printed for $4,000 These 3D printed structures not only reduce labour costs, construction time and material wastage, they are also quite durable and more disaster-resistant, says Ballard:

There are fundamental problems with conventional stick-building that 3D printing solves, besides affordability. You get a high thermal mass, thermal envelope, which makes it far more energy-efficient. It’s far more resilient.

The team plans to use the 3D printed demonstration model in Austin as an office in the near future, to test and tweak it out further. The aim is to offer the Vulcan at an affordable price internationally, so that it can be adopted on a wider scale, explains New Story CEO Brett Hagler:

Ideally we can move from thousands of people to millions of people around the world by allowing other nonprofits and governments to use this technology. That’s the big goal, because our goal is impacting the most families possible.