China's top economic planner is conducting an anti-trust probe into several baby formula companies to investigate allegations of price fixing.

 

　　Several baby formula companies believed to have a monopoly in the Chinese market are being investigated.

 

　　Several baby formula manufacturers, including Biostime, MeadJohnson and Nestle, have been accused of violating anti-monopoly laws via high prices and limited market competition.

 

　　Companies that are found to have violated the law will be punished accordingly in order to protect the market and safeguard consumers' interests.

 

　　Global Times

 

　　500 Ladies Seek Millionaires at Hook-up Event

 

　　Over 500 single women participated in an upscale matchmaking event recently, all desperate to become wealthy housewives.

 

　　The event organizer, China Entrepreneurs' Club for Singles, claims to charge men an annual fee of 200-thousand yuan for the chance to meet a carefully selected and screened lineup of ladies.

 

　　While women are not charged a fee, the club claims to vet all potential matches through rigorous rounds of written tests and interviews, including an intelligence exam, psychological evaluation and a "life skill test".

 

　　Other hurdles include a shirt folding contest, a luggage packing challenge, a tarot card reading and a pulse-taking by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

 

　　Daily Mail

 

　　Internet Images of Child Abuse Double in Just a Year: 70-Thousand Sickening Pictures and Videos Discovered Online in 2012

 

　　A horrifying new report has made these claims and that there has been a 70-percent increase in the number of images featuring girls under the age of 10.

 

　　It also found that there was a 125-percent increase in the number of Level 4 images - which feature sex with children - on the internet.

 

　　Its report also found that paedophiles were increasingly using sophisticated software to hide their illegal activities.

 

　　AFP

 

　　It's A Bug's Life: Microbes to Inherit The Earth

 

　　A study claims 2-billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survivors.

 

　　Researchers say as the Sun ages over the next billion years, it will become more luminous, cranking up the thermostat on the Earth.

 

　　Over the second billion years, the oceans will dry up completely, leaving extremophiles -- microbial life able to cope with intense ultra-violet radiation and raging heat from the Sun -- to inherit the planet.