Beijing Olympic organisers on Monday sought to play down security concerns looming over the Games, a day after authorities said two "terrorist" plots from its Muslim-majority north-west had been foiled. "We are confident that we will be able to have a safe Olympics," said Sun Weide, a spokesperson from Beijing’s Olympic Organising Committee.
One of the world’s top fossil hunters unveiled a previously unknown gigantic, chicken-like dinosaur on Wednesday that may change evolutionary theory on prehistoric animals. The remains of the animal, thought to have weighed 1 400kg, was discovered in a freak find by Xing Xu in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia.