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Hong Kong's tourism numbers fell sharply in August as Chinese tourists stayed away. But which countries, and companies, will benefit from this shift?

Famous football pundit Guillem Balague has said Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale is "fed up and angry," and wants to leave the Spanish club.

China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group's identity in Xinjiang.In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed in the northwest region, according to an AFP investigation with satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance.Some of the graves were cleared with little care -- in Shayar county, AFP journalists saw unearthed human bones left discarded in three sites. In other sites tombs that were reduced to mounds of bricks lay scattered in cleared tracts of land.

Chinese state media accused NBA Commissioner Adam Silver of 'willing to be another handy tool for US interference' after he insisted the league would not apologise for a tweet supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong