Yan was born in 1908 in Jia County, Shaanxi Province.

On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighbourhood of man, and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow-creatures, and the author of your own speedy ruin.

The manager of the London Cup hockey tournament must apologise for playing apartheid anthem Die Stem before South Africa's clash with Great Britain, SA Hockey Association chief executive Marissa Langeni said on Wednesday.

Charles the Great / Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French / Beyond the river Sala, in the year / Eight hundred five.