Restrictions ban private aircraft owners from almost all of China’s airspace. But Nuomin He, one of the country’s estimated 2,000 private aircraft owners, is one of the few who grouped together for the Air Nadaam festival in Hexigten, Inner Mongolia – the first event of its kind – seeking leniency for aviation enthusiasts.
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Skater protests force review of Southbank development plans
Thursday 04 July 2013
The Southbank Centre has been forced to review plans for a £120m redevelopment of its site, following a campaign orchestrated by London’s skateboarders to save their “spiritual home”.
National Theatre and English Heritage unite to oppose redevelopment of London's Southbank Centre
Thursday 04 July 2013
The skateboarding community, National Theatre, and English Heritage groups have come together to put a spanner in the works of a planned redevelopment of the area
Shipton & Tilman: the Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration, By Jim Perrin. Hutchinson, £25
Tuesday 28 May 2013
With what relish Jim Perrin must have written the dateline concluding this idiosyncratic biography: "Ariège, Bastille Day 2012". In Shipton & Tilman, the Pyrenees-based Perrin has ignited some impish Fete Nationale firecrackers of his own to slip under the door of mountaineering's conceit. His aim has been to reclaim these two explorers from an establishment within which "they never truly belonged".
The five-mile high octogenarian contest: 80-year-old man begins quest to become oldest man to climb Mount Everest... but 81-year-old rival also seeks title
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Yuichiro Miura, 80, who has had heart surgery four times is already in the oxygen-deficient 'death zone'
View from the Sofa: A Grand National main course, but none of the trimmings, thanks
Monday 08 April 2013
Grand National, Channel 4
The Big Six: Peruvian pit stops
Saturday 30 March 2013
Andean-style furnishings, hot springs and private beaches
The Queenstown effect: Andy Flower defends England players amid criticism
Monday 11 March 2013
England cricket team take part in adventure activities while on tour in New Zealand
Video: Australian town covered in foam
Monday 28 January 2013
A town in Australia has been covered in foam after strong winds blew the surf off the sea and onto the shore.
Skiing: Woods wins again to reach Sochi
Sunday 13 January 2013
Great Britain's James Woods has won his second straight ski slopestyle World Cup event in the latest round in Colorado.
Branson leads the kitesurfers' revolt as Olympic chiefs reverse course to leave sport out of Rio
Sunday 11 November 2012
Sailing's governing body reverses decision to replace windsurfing after international outcry
Windsurfing returns to Olympic sailing line-up for Rio 2016
Saturday 10 November 2012
People power kicked the decision to drop windsurfers from the Olympic sailing line-up into the oblivion of history as rank and file national representatives voted against the council members of the International Sailing Federation at its annual general meeting in Dublin.
Thanks to Felix, our next step should be the Moon
Monday 15 October 2012
Cynicism gave way to wonder as Felix Baumgartner rose to the edge of space, and fell to Earth at 800mph. Don’t stop there, says Simon Usborne, fly us to the moon
The year the grains failed
Thursday 11 October 2012
Families are going hungry in the developing world after calamitous weather conditions decimated harvests. Michael McCarthy reports
Superbikes and Moto GP unite
Wednesday 03 October 2012
The organisers of rival motorcycling race series MotoGP and World Superbikes have agreed to bring their interests together for the first time.
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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