In April about 700km (430 miles) to the south, Disney broke ground in Shanghai at the site of an amusement park that it says will feature the world's largest Disney castle.

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Customers of Hotmail, which research firm Compete says is the second-largest Web mail client in the U.S., can enable the security feature in their settings page.

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It turns out 120 feature films a year, has four stock exchanges (including the third largest in the world), some 6, 500 factories and is headquarters for major companies such as the Tata Group, Reliance and the State Bank of India.

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Britain's largest-ever poetry festival, Poetry Parnassus, will take place on the South Bank and feature 205 poets, one from each of the Olympic nations.

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The Sentosa project will feature a Universal Studios theme park, six hotels and one of the world's largest marine parks.

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