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Performing on home soil in Shanghai will add to China's top divers' motivation when the world aquatics championships open this weekend in Shanghai.

The Chinese team has long dominated the diving portion of the worlds, winning 14 medals in Rome in 2009, including seven out of 10 golds. But in recent years, the marquee swimming events have tended to be showdowns between the American, Australian and European teams, with China lagging behind.

With the worlds in China for the first time, Chinese swimmers are expected to fare much better. The United States and China each won 29 medals overall in Rome, including 11 golds.

China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 6.4 percent year-on-year in June, the highest in three years, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday.

Food prices, which account for nearly a third of the basket of goods in the nation's CPI calculation, jumped 14.4 percent in June from the same month last year, a pace faster than May's 11.7 percent, the NBS said in a statement on its website.

Growth in non-food prices also accelerated to 3 percent in June, up from 2.9 percent in May from a year earlier.

China's CPI hits three-year high of 6.4% in June

She is 27, works as an art designer, and browses online for sex products nearly every week.

She started in September 2009 after noticing a sex products store near her home in Beijing's Dongcheng district. "I was curious about what the products can do and if they could really improve sex life."

But she shied away from going into the store, lest a friend see her. (Similarly, she didn't want her name published.)

Removing a parasitic worm from someone's brain may sound like a scene from a movie, but it happened in reality in China's Jiangsu province.

A 23cm-long, live parasitic worm was found in a young Chinese woman's brain and has been successfully removed after a complicated open brain surgery in East China's Jiangsu province, the Yangtze Evening Post reported on Wednesday.

The patient, who did not want to be named, was diagnosed with epilepsy in December 2010. But after blood tests a doctor noticed that she was infected with pathogens and a CT scan also showed an unknown spot in her brain.

Half a year later, having once again suffered violent seizures, the patient underwent surgery.