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Bilingual news: Mobile phone owners could soon be able to give their batteries a boost with their own urine. British scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have developed a way to use urine as a power source to generate electricity.

Photo: A dilapidated five-story building stands amid ruins at in Yudun, Zhejiang province. The owner of the building has refused to move out for an industrial project and since 2010 has walked away from compensation agreements with village authorities. The owner's water and power supplies were shut off earlier this year.