The Dalai Lama said Chinese officials were "respectful" in meetings last week, but large differences remained over the causes of the recent unrest in Tibet.

The son of American evangelist Billy Graham said Friday he is opposed to missionary work at this summer's Beijing Olympic Games.

The Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials disagreed more than they agreed at weekend talks on how to move beyond the unrest in Tibet, one of the Tibetan spiritual leader's representatives said Thursday.

An editor's career at a popular magazine in southern China appeared to be in limbo Wednesday after he wrote an opinion article that challenged the government on the prickly issues of censorship and Tibet.

They read the Dalai Lama's speeches and studied the tumultuous background of his native Tibet.

Waving the Tibet flag or paying tribute to the Dalai Lama during the medals ceremony will be against the rules at the Beijing Olympics, though the penalties for those infractions remain unknown.

Playwright, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are among the newsmakers on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

Protesters waved Chinese flags and shouted slogans outside Carrefour stores in Beijing and other cities Thursday, venting anger over the disruption of the Olympic torch relay. No violence was reported and police dispersed the gatherings.

Shimmering stadiums and billions of dollars spent to remake Beijing into a modern city have been overshadowed by pro-Tibet protests, chaos on the Olympic torch relay, and an anti-Western backlash by angry Chinese who sense their coming-out party is being spoiled.

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