Uncertainty about future economic conditions has added at least a percentage point to the unemployment rate, according to Sylvain Leduc and Zheng Liu of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

ECONOMIST: Business and America��s fiscal cliff

"None of us ever cared about titles or things like that, " says Zheng Yanchu, Liu Yongxing's wife.

CNN: Hope Takes On the World

"North Korea did not carry out this test because it wanted to test the world, but to increase its bargaining chips, " Liu Zheng, a North Korea specialist at the National School of Administration Graduate Department, tells China National Radio.

BBC: China media: Pyongyang pressure

Down here, Liu Qin-Zheng practises his art with no hurry and clear enjoyment.

BBC: Here be dragons