Most regional newspapers including the Beijing News lead with a long Xinhua News Agency feature on the 20th anniversary of a trip to southern China made by late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.

China Youth Daily is one of a handful of national newspapers that picked up the Xinhua article, which marked Mr Deng's speeches emphasising the importance of economic reform.

Mr Deng's visit in 1992 is seen as a milestone in China's recent economic success.

People's Daily instead marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Communist China's best known Good Samaritan, Lei Feng, because a recent Communist Party meeting called for Lei Feng's spirit to be studied. The actual anniversary will be in August.

In other news, People's Daily leads with the report of a Politburo meeting chaired by President Hu Jintao which discussed the forthcoming government work report to be delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao.

People's Daily and China Daily also continue their coverage of Vice-President Xi Jinping's foreign visit. Mr Xi met the Irish president and prime minister before heading to Turkey.

People's Daily talks to the Chinese ambassador to Turkey, who says there is a bright future for China-Turkey relations.

The Global Times picks up the news that Japan's Mayor of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura apparently denied the existence of the Nanking Massacre as he received a visiting delegation from Nanjing City. Beijing's Foreign Ministry has denounced Mr Kawamura's comment.

Also, Beijing News questions in its editorial a plan to turn the Sichuan township of Yingxiu into a major tourist spot.

The editorial called for respect to those who died in the deadly earthquake in 2008, which completely ruined Yingxiu.

Tuesday is New Year's Eve for Tibetans, and both China Daily and People's Daily portray a festive scene with reports on how people are preparing for celebrations and how a few ethnic Tibetan soldiers are celebrating with fellow Han Chinese troopers in the southern island of Hainan.

In Hong Kong, most newspapers lead with the news of former top minister Henry Tang submitting his nomination to run for Hong Kong's chief executive post.

The scandal-hit Mr Tang has received support from four property tycoons in the city, says Ming Pao Daily News, including Li Ka-shing.

The Standard and others also reports legislator Regina Ip's announcement that she is running for the same post. Mrs Ip resigned from her previous post of secretary of security in 2003 after the draft anti-subversion legislation sparked a massive rally in protest against the bill.

The Welfare Reform Bill goes back before MPs on Tuesday amid wrangling over the detail. The Bill will impose a cap of £26,000 on the amount of benefits that households can claim.

Father-of-five Ade, like Raymond, is happy to detail his income and expenditure. But unlike unemployed Raymond, who has not worked for more than a decade, Ade works as a full-time systems analyst, on take-home pay of £20,592.

The family's biggest outgoing is the mortgage on their home, a three-bedroom end-of-terrace. But, says Ade: "One day we will own it outright so it's not wasted money."

"We are reaping benefits of a good society and I see no problem with that," he says. "Benefits are a good thing, and if society can afford it, they should be paid."

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In towns and cities across Libya, celebrations took place marking the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the overthrow of Col Gaddafi, but hundreds of former rebels are still armed and many believe in settling disputes with a gun.

We needed permission from the commander of the local brigade, shouted the fighter. What right did he have to walk into his office and tell him what to do, responded our doctor.

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Since the late 1980s Uganda has rebounded from the abyss of civil war and economic catastrophe to become relatively peaceful, stable and prosperous.

In addition, Western-backed economic reforms produced solid growth and falls in inflation in the 1990s. However, Mr Museveni has bemoaned his country's failure to industrialise.

The discovery of oil and gas in the west of the country have boosted confidence in the economy.

The president came under fire for Uganda's military involvement, along with five other countries, in neighbouring DR Congo's 1998-2003 civil war. DR Congo accuses Uganda of maintaining its influence in the mineral-rich east of the country. Uganda says DR Congo has failed to disarm Ugandan rebels on its soil.

The cult-like Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has rampaged across northern Uganda for the past two decades and has in recent years spread to neighbouring countries, abducting and killng tens of thousands as well as displacing more than 1.5 million. It has been described as one of the most effective guerrilla armies in Africa.

Its leader Joseph Kony says he wants to run the country along the lines of the biblical Ten Commandments, and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Some critics have wondered why the conflict has gone on for so long, and others have questioned Mr Museveni's commitment to ending the insurgency.

Uganda has won praise for its vigorous campaign against HIV/Aids. This has helped to reduce the prevalence of the virus – which reached 30% in the 1990s – to single-digit figures.

Nokia Smartphone owners in the UAE can update their current phone with the latest Nokia’s Belle software update. The new software delivers the latest innovative technologies to enhance the consumer experience and improve smartphone performance while allowing users to upgrade their existing mobile handsets. The upgrade will allow Nokia N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7, Oro, Nokia 500 devices to experience a whole load of enhancements.

The latest version of Nokia’s smartphone operating system looks and works better than ever before.

Nokia Belle delivers more personalization options than before. You can have up to six home screens that are easy to personalize, leaving all your favorite applications and services only a few taps away.

Headline features include eye catching new widgets, more customisation options, new apps and built-in NFC functionality. All these innovative features are readily available for free for all Nokia Belle smartphone users.

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Free-form, differently-sized, live widgets: widgets like the clock, email, music player, favourite contacts and the calendar have been redesigned and now come in five different sizes and rearranged to create a completely personalised set of screens. There are also new ‘Toggle’ widgets for tasks like switching on Bluetooth and changing profiles.

Improved Imaging: The new and improved Nokia Belle interface also includes new features like imaging applications with HD video recording at 30 frames per second and a visually improved browsing and viewing of Web videos. The menus have been simplified and a notifications abar has been added to make accessing key settings or features, very fast.

More homescreens: with Nokia Belle the maximum number of homescreens rises from three to six, so now you can have absolutely everything close at hand.

Improved status bar: the status bar sport a modern, flat look and incorporates a pull down notifications tab that integrates common settings and notification of incoming messages, missed calls and the rest.

Modernised navigation: the navigation and options bar at the bottom of the screen sports a modern, new look, similar to that first seen on the Nokia N9.

New apps: a new suite of powerful business apps from Microsoft includes Lync (IM for businesses, like Microsoft Communicator), SharePoint, OneNote, Exchange ActiveSync and PowerPoint Broadcaster.

NFC devices: With Nokia Belle, Near-Field Communications (NFC) is now deeply integrated into the operating system, so you can share pictures, connect with accessories, and check-in – all with just a tap. The new upgrade allows smartphone users to share videos, images and contacts with friends and family by simply tapping two NFC-enabled devices together, as well as pairing with Nokia’s wide range of NFC accessories including the Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset, Nokia Essence Bluetooth stereo headset and Nokia Play 360°, a wireless speaker.
Visual multitasking: Now you can flick between larger live images of your open apps to see what’s going on at a glance and move quickly between your apps.

Commenting on Nokia Belle, Vithesh Reddy, General Manager of Nokia Middle East said: “With Nokia Belle, we are providing a totally fresh experience to new and existing users as part of our belief that the future of mobile will focus on further developing and strengthening existing ecosystems. Today’s smartphone users demand handsets that can respond to their ever changing lifestyle requirements and keep up with their on-the-go lives. Today’s upgrade does just that. By introducing an operating system that looks and works better than ever before, Nokia is meeting and anticipating future demand of users in the Middle East.”

To upgrade Nokia Belle, users need to run the latest version of Nokia Suite 3.3 on their PC and connect their handset to take full advantage of the all new Belle experience.

Published February 19th, 2012 – 07:29 GMT

Some media reported over the weekend said Libyan journalist Hala Misrati died in prison. Hala was a presenter on pro-Gaddafi Libyan TV and became famous during the uprising following her theatrical brandishing of a pistol in the air, saying: “I will kill or die.”

After checking the report with the family of Hala, it turns out it was just a rumor. “Hala Misrati is, nevertheless, in a dangerous situation and her death can happen at any time,” they said. The Transitional National Council which is ruling Libya is yet to issue confirmation or denial for this information. fada on the Qaddafi regime gun front of the camera, and threatened all the rebels and protesters on Gaddafi. It is noteworthy that the last video showing Misrati dated 30 December 2011, in which she appeared in a silent, as if her tongue was cut off or she lost her verbal capability.

It should be mentioned that, Hala Misrati, who strongly defended Muammar Gaddafi, has been kidnapped by rebels in August 2011 after the fall of Tripoli. 

Herschel, Europe's billion-euro space observatory, has entered what is likely to be its last year of operation.

The telescope studies the formation of stars, and has taken some remarkable pictures since its launch in May 2009.

But its detectors require a constant supply of superfluid helium to keep working, and the store of this coolant has now dropped to less than 100kg.

This past week saw Herschel begin what engineers believe will be the final 365 days of its working life.

"There's quite a bit of uncertainty in all this, of course," said Dr Paul Goldsmith from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US.

"It could be 11 months, it could be 14 months, and we're naturally hoping for the latter. It's certainly true that we have enough observations proposed to go well past the year if the helium lasts that long," he told BBC News.

Dr Goldsmith has been discussing the observatory's successes during a special seminar here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

He is the US space agency (Nasa) project scientist on the mission. Although principally a European Space Agency (Esa) venture, Herschel has a 6% contribution from the Americans, who provided some mission-enabling technology for two of the telescope's three instruments.

But in what is an indication of just how well the US has been able to leverage that 6%, it is likely that about a half of the remaining opportunity observations on Herschel will in its last year be led by astronomers from American institutions.

"Herschel has been so open," said Margaret Meixner, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

"There's been no counting of how much time Europe has had or how much America and Canada have had – it's been about whatever the best science is. I don't think there's ever been a space telescope quite like that."

Herschel was launched in May 2009 and sent to an observing position 1.5 million km from Earth.

Its goal has been to study the processes at play in the formation of stars and the evolution of galaxies. Its detectors pick up the light coming from the frigid clouds of gas and dust that are being warmed by the brilliant newborn stars buried within them.

This is long wavelength light, beyond the detection of our eyes or a telescope like Hubble. It is in the far-infrared.

To pick it up, parts of Herschel's instruments have to be cooled to near absolute zero (-273.15C), and this has been made possible by a store of superchilled helium. The telescope was launched with more than 2,000 litres, and this has been gradually boiling off as operations have progressed.

When it is all gone, the temperature of the instruments and its detectors will rise and the telescope will go blind.

The minimum expectation had been for 3.5 years of observations. The amount of helium still left in Herschel's tank, or cryostat, means this objective should be surpassed quite easily.

Dr Meixner said Herschel's legacy would be long-lived.

"The thing about the great observatories is that they make huge data archives that live on for decades.

"Herschel, because of its exquisite sensitivity, really is going to be a pathfinder for future projects in this area for at least 30-plus years.

"Facilities just coming on line like [the radio telescope] Alma have very small fields of view – people need to know where to point, and they are going to run to the Herschel archive and say 'where do I look?'. It's how they will do their source selection."

Dr Meixner showed the meeting an image she has just acquired using Herschel. It is a view of the Large Magallenic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way.

"It's my latest pride and joy," she told BBC News.

"It looks like a fiery image, but what you're seeing there is all the dust emission from that galaxy. It's very knotty and filamentous – it's sort of like the chaos of creation. Those filaments and stuff are where the stars are going to form in that galaxy."

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