China's richest village

Huaxi village, also known as China's richest village, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the inauguration of a massive 1,076 feet high skyscraper that screams for attention from its lowly skyline. A solid gold bull weighing a tonne also greets visitors at a viewing area on the 60th-floor of the tower, a testament to the wealth of the village. In Huaxi, those from the original 2,000 residents have at least a house, a car, and $250,000 in the bank and enjoy universal health care and free education. Officials from elsewhere in China tour Huaxi to find out how this once sleepy village, with just 576 residents in the 1950s, is now so rich and why non-local businessmen would donate million-dollar factories to buy the privilege of a local residence permit.

Underwater follies Take a trip back in time with vintage shots of fun-loving divers, some of whom are outfitted in pretty crazy looking suits and all are plunging into the watery depths of the sea. During the film production of Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the communications chief takes a nap. (Peter Stackpole/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) Donut hole Nowadays, when one thinks of scuba diving, shimmering blue waters or rainbow-esque reefs may come to mind. But it wasn't always like that. Long before wet suits and air tanks, underwater chambers like this diving bell allowed underwater exploration. (Imagno/Getty Images) US Navy Salvage School, 1955 Deep sea diving was often part of the US Navy training. (Al Barry/Getty Images) High risk occupation Other individuals not in the Navy also made a living deep-sea diving, although insurance companies would not issue life or accident insurance policies to those adventurers. (Evans/Getty Images) Getting her relaxing photograph.. A woman strikes a pose for an underwater camera. (Keystone/Getty Images)

How Steve Jobs's biological mother doesn't know he is dead as care home nurses believe dementia sufferer is too ill to be told By Paul Bentley Last updated at 7:45 AM on 15th October 2011 His death was one of the most widely publicised in recent history, filling newspapers and television schedules for days as fans worldwide united in grief. Among the few people in the Western world, however, who will not have heard of Steve Jobs's passing, is perhaps the most important - his own mother. Joanne Simpson, who reluctantly gave her son up for adoption after falling pregnant when she was a student, is seriously unwell in a nursing home in Los Angeles and has no idea her son has died, MailOnline can reveal. Biological parents: Father John Jandali never met Jobs while it is thought mother Joanne Simpson does not know he has died Sources close to the family said the Apple founder's biological mother, Joanne Simpson, 79, is tragically battling advanced dementia. She has very limited mental capacity and is said barely to know who she is, let alone what has become of the son she gave away. Jobs was adopted in 1955 after being born to Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian man, and Joanne Schieble, who was a graduate student at the time. The couple were not married and keeping him would have been deemed shameful by their communities. Brought up by Paul and Clara Jobs, Steve is thought to have reconciled with his mother but never to have made contact with his biological father. Genius: The Apple founder completely revolutionised the way we communicate In his renowned 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Jobs described how his mother signed the adoption papers reluctantly, wanting to give him away to a well-educated couple. Paul Jobs was a high-school drop-out who became a machinist and his wife Clara never graduated from college. Joanne Simpson eventually married Jandali and the couple had another child, Mona Simpson, who went on to become a famous novelist, before getting divorced. She later remarried. 'My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student,' Jobs said in his speech. Deteriorating: The Berkley East Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles, where Steve Jobs's birth mother, who has dementia, is being looked after 'She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates.' When he grew up, Jobs found his mother and the two kept in touch. He also forged a relationship with his biological sister. Despite the reconciliation, Simpson's dementia is so serious she has no idea about her son's death. Her condition has so far deteriorated she is said briefly to have been admitted to a mental hospital after neighbours reported seeing her wandering the streets half naked. Frail: Jobs was photographed in August looking very unwell A source said: 'Steve was one of the richest men in the world, but his wealth couldn't save him and it couldn't save his mother. 'We used to find her wondering the streets wearing only a house coat with nothing underneath and sometimes we would find her wearing barely anything climbing trees in her bare feet. 'In the end someone dropped her at a mental hospital as they were so concerned for her wellbeing and then when her daughter found out they eventually moved her to a nursing home. 'She was a lovely woman so it was very hard to see her demise. Now she is locked in her own body and barely knows who she is let alone Steve anymore.' Jobs knew about his birth mother's mental condition and is said secretly to have helped her financially. 'They had reconnected in later life and it must have been so sad for Steve watching his mum lose her mind , knowing there was nothing he could do about it,' the source added. 'It was like a double heartache as there was nothing he could do about his condition either in the end. 'While we never saw him round her house before they moved her, what we do know is that her rent was paid for as if by magic every month. 'And now she is in one of the best care homes, so it doesn't take a fool to work out who is paying for it.'

 

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The world's tallest tower to the height of one kilometer within the next five years will be made in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Dubai tower now world's tallest tower in Dubai holds the record. The tower height is 828 meters, which opened in 2010. But within five years that the tower be built to a height of km (kilometer) and so it will be 172 meters taller than Burj Dubai. This tower is called the Kingdom Tower in the port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia will be made. The new tower at a level equal to 530 thousand square meters, is the skyscraper, which will host a Four Seasons hotel, luxury apartments, offices and the panoramic landscape. According Larpvblyka, the tower will have 59 lifts with a vertical velocity of 10 meters per second. Within one minute and forty seconds with the lift can be thousands of meters from ground level to the last point Pymvd tower. The tower was built with a cost of $ 1.2 billion. Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill designed the tower, two architects from Chicago are responsible.