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[Metro & Sports]

• For about a thousand Chinese tourists, New Year's celebrations were a foreign affair this year. They are part of the self-proclaimed "Thousand Gather in New York" travel party.
• Wind-solar generators are fueling life of herdsmen on North China's grasslands.
• Chen is one of the China's rapidly expanding "rich class". He has several properties in Beijing, including a grand courtyard house he uses only to entertain friends and business associates.
• All-Star MVP Dwyane Wade was knocked out of the Miami Heat's game against New Jersey on Wednesday night because of a strained left calf.
• Kenya's athletes have been thrown into mourning after the death of David Lelei in a road accident on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.  

• The "Shutter Island" star - who has been acting since he was 15, says it's important to keep grounded when experiencing fame and success because it can be taken away very quickly.
• Well while others maybe obsessed with maintaining their celebrity status, country singer Taylor Swift is ''obsessed'' with number 13.
• An inquest in London has been told that Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in a wardrobe after leaving a note.

[Strange News]

• A top Italian food writer has been suspended from the country's version of Ready Steady Cook for recommending stewed cat.
• Health and safety advisers have been slammed for banning contestants in a pancake race from running in case they fell over.
• Police have arrested a hacker who caused gridlock by beaming a porn film on a giant billboard in central Moscow.