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They say anything is possible when you have a good friend to support you through tough times.  A disabled boy in China has been able to go to class for six years without a problem thanks to his classmate and best friend who piggybacks him every day. Xu Bingyang, 12, carries Zhang Ze to school come rain or shine. The kind-hearted boy also helps his friend to fetch lunch and move between classrooms to attend different lessons.  The beautiful friendship between the two children from Meishan city in south-western China's Sichuan Province was reported earlier this month by Chinese news outlets, including Sichuan Online and Xinhua. Xu, who is much taller and stronger than Zhang, told reporters that it was his pleasure to be his friend's 'walking stick'.  He added that it wasn't difficult to lift Zhang. 'I weigh more than 40kg (88 pounds) and Zhang Ze only weighs about 25kg (55 pounds), so it's okay for me to carry him,' Xu said.  On the...

It was only 200 days ago, on his 601st day in office, that President Trump exceeded 5,000 false or misleading claims. Now, on his 801st day, the count stands at 9,451, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president utters. That’s a pace of 22 fishy claims a day over the past 200 days, a steep climb from the average of nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in Trump’s first year in office. Of course, not every day yields 22 claims. The president’s tally expands when he’s giving a speech, usually at a campaign rally. At such events, he runs through many of his favorite lines, such as that he passed the biggest tax cut in history, that his U.S.-Mexico border wall is already being built and that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. All three of those claims are on The Fact Checker’s list of Bottomless Pinocchios. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on March 28, for instance, Trump made 64 claims tha...

The official James Bond Twitter account on Sunday shared the news with the message: "We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in GOLDFINGER has passed away. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time." Mallet, born May 19, 1941, in Blackpool, England, was the daughter of a British father, Henry Mallet, and a Russian mother, Olga Mironoff, who was the sister to Helen Mirren's father, meaning Tania and Mirren were cousins. Mallet got her start as a model at age 16, ultimately achieving a great deal of success throughout the 1950s and '60s. In a 2003 interview with the James Bond fan site MI6, Mallet said she got the  Goldfinger  role after "someone sent a photo of me to [producer] Cubby Broccoli. I believe it was a picture taken by Henry Clark for  Vogue  and shows me lying on some rocks in a bikini." View image on Twitter James Bond ✔ @007 We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mal...