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Chinese tennis star Li Na has announced her retirement on a personal social networking site.
Li cited knee injuries as the reason for retiring from play.
The 32-year-old tennis sensation said she had no regrets about ending her tennis career. She said it is a very tough decision, but she has done her best, and it is the most appropriate time to say goodbye.
Li is planning to set up her tennis training school, and will invite her former coach Carlos Rodriguez to join the school.
Li's tennis career culminated with two grand slam titles in the past three years and a rise to number two in the world rankings.
The achievement has made her the first and only grand slam winner in China and Asia.
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The delayed release of the iPhone 6 in China has been a boon for scalpers seeking to score on the black and grey markets.
Large portions of the crowds that gathered outside Apple retail outlets in the U.S. for the iPhone 6 release were Chinese buyers looking to profit off the delayed release.
Chinese scalpers made up the vast majority of the 2,000 people waiting in line at the Apple store on New York's Fifth Avenue.
Chinese news media reported that a scalper surnamed Wang said the Chinese Mainland is off the list this year, while there are bunch of rich guys crying for the new product, which has driven the price of each phone up to 400 dollars. Wang originally came from Fujian Province in eastern China.
A grey-market iPhone 6 goes for as much as 2,700 dollars on the Chinese mainland.
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Apple's largest iPhone is selling for 100 dollars more than its other new model, but an outside research firm estimated that it costs Apple only 15 dollars more to make the more expensive version.
Apple said it sold more than 10 million of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in their first three days on sale. Both have larger screens than earlier iPhone models, and analysts say consumers like the new, bigger sizes. The Plus has a 5.5-inch screen, as measured diagonally, while the regular iPhone 6 is at 4.7 inches.
The new iPhones address a key advantage that rival Android phones have long had -- size. The iPhone has been Apple's main source of profits and is expected to remain so for at least the next year.
Research firms estimates that Apple will make more profit on the Plus version. The full, no-contract price for the 16-gigabyte iPhone 6 is 650 dollars; and it costs Apple200 dollars for materials and manufacturing. The iPhone 6 Plus retails for 750 dollars without a contract, but it costs Apple around 216 dollars.
The Plus model also has a bigger battery and a slightly more expensive camera than the regular iPhone 6.
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Israel has joined the international effort to stem the Ebola epidemic sweeping across West Africa.
Doctors, health care professionals and infectious disease experts are being sent to Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Liberia to treat infected patients and help prevent spread of the disease.
Two physicians are already in Cameroon and others will be joining them in the near future. Meanwhile, a shipment of medicine and medical equipment is scheduled to arrive in the affected areas in West Africa.
The United States, along with a host of other nations, and international organizations have scrambled to combat the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola has killed some 2,600 people and infected around 5,300 others in West Africa since early spring.
But some media outlets from the countries ravaged by the disease have been critical of the concerted effort, saying that too little help has arrived too late.
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