2010 World Expo: Tour the world in one day

Special Report:2010 Shanghai Expo Countdown

BEIJING, May 1 -- How much will it cost to tour the world? The answer is 160 yuan (23.35 U.S. dollars). In just a year's time, people will be able to enjoy tea in a French garden, chat with friends on Australia's Uluru and take a trip on Switzerland's Mount Titlis cable car, all on the same day. The dreamlike journey will take place in the 2010 World Expo site along the Huangpu River in Shanghai.

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With 365 days to go and more than 1 million tickets already sold in China, it's time to think about what the 2010 world fair will have to offer.

What can visitors expect for their 160 yuan? The organizers have the answers: pavilions, foreign cultures, exhibitions, performances as well as cuisine and shopping.

Visitors will be dazzled by more than 200 innovative pavilions. For example, the United Kingdom Pavilion will be a huge "light box" with 60,000 spines projecting out into the air. The Poland Pavilion will be designed like a *** cutting. The Spain Pavilion will look as if it was woven out of reeds. The newly unveiled India Pavilion will replicate a 2,000-year-old Buddhist stupa.

While strolling around the world, visitors can also experience the atmosphere of the exotic. Couples may like to take in a French wedding in the France Pavilion. The Republic of Korea will let visitors to walk through Seoul's streets. Visitors to the Norway Pavilion will have the chance to stroll through Scandinavian fjords and forests.

Britney Spears extends Circus tour to Europe

BEIJING, April 30 -- Singer Britney Spears has extended her "Circus" concert tour to include a dozen European shows taking her from London to Russia, the pop star's representatives said on her Web site on Wednesday.

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Spears kicks off the European leg of her tour with a June 19 show in Dublin, Ireland, with later stops in France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland and a final European stop July 26 in Berlin.

She began her "Circus" tour March 3 in her home state of Louisiana, and the tour features 39 North American dates.

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Keough wins fourth stage in Tour of Uruguay

U.S. cyclist Jack Keough won on Monday the fourth stage of the 66th Tour of Uruguay which is led by his Kelly Benefits teammate Jonathan Mumford.

Keough timed 3 hours, 59 minutes and 37 seconds in 175.8km between the cities of Trinidad (center) and Fray Bentos (west), achieving with this his third partial triumph in the competition. Keough's average speed was of 41km per hour.

Uruguayan Geovani Fernandez (Alas Rojas, Uruguya) arrived in second place, followed by Oscar Grau (Cosaor, Spain) and German Victor Uzlen (Norland, Germany).

The fifth stage will be on Wednesday between the cities of Young (west) and Salto (northwest) with a distance of 173km.

A total of 27 teams, including 11 teams of foreigners, with more than 150 cyclists participate in the race.

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