Q: (CNN) -- Hilary Duff says her new album is "very positive" but admits that it started out "a lot heavier and a lot darker" because of the separation from her husband, Mike Comrie.

"I'm separated from my husband right now, which has been a very difficult thing to go through," she told Billboard's "Pop Shop" podcast. "In the beginning, the album was a lot heavier and a lot darker, because I had to get that out. Once I did get that out, a lot of fun came."

Duff married Comrie, a former pro hockey player, in 2010 after dating for three years. Their son, Luca, was born in 2012. Duff and Comrie announced their separation in January.

Duff, 26, admits that she's "nervous" after being away from music for seven years. Her just-released single, "Chasing the Sun," is from her still-untitled album, which will be her first studio release since 2007's "Dignity."

She says she first started thinking of new material when she was pregnant with her son. After having the child and taking another year, she was even more anxious.

"I felt like I was missing a big part of myself," she said.

Duff established a successful singing career on the heels of her popular Disney show, "Lizzie McGuire," which aired from 2001 to 2004. She spent most of her teenage years touring and says that turning 20 was a big factor in leaving the road.

"It was time for me to be a person, and the break just ended up being a long time," she said.

1. Hilary Duff
2. It's "very positive"
3. No
4. a lot heavier and a lot darker
5. Lizzie McGuire
6. from 2001 to 2004
7. Disney
8. no
9. A teenager
10. unknown
11. Yes
12. Mike Comrie
13. former pro hockey player
14. three years
15. Luca
16. No
17. 2012
18. No

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the main character of the article?
2. What does she think of her new album that was just released?
3. Was it always that way?
4. What was it like before it was changed?
5. Where did her musical adventure begin?
6. When was that on TV?
7. Who was responsible for airing that?
8. Was she in her thirties while producing it?
9. How old was she?
10. Did she once believe to find her soulmate and have a wedding?
11. Does she have any children?
12. With who?
13. What is his profession?
14. How long did they date before tying the knot?
15. What is their childs name?
16. Was he brought into this world in 2005?
17. When?
18. Was she happy to take such a long hiatus from her songs?

Q: (CNN) -- On Friday morning, Wojdan Shaherkani will set a new Olympic record. By participating in the first round of the Olympic judo competition she will become the first Saudi woman to take part in any Olympic Games.

Qatar and Brunei are also allowing female athletes to compete at the Olympics for the first time, making these Games a landmark for Arab women. Celebrating female athletes from the Arab world, a photo exhibition called "Hey-Ya (Let's Go!): Arab Women in Sport," has opened in London.

Brigitte Lacombe took all the photographs in the exhibition. "It's not a star-driven project," she told CNN's Zain Verjee. "It is our chance to see another face of the Arab Women -- more modern and more engaged."

Lacombe said she was astonished by the determination and the joy of all the young athletes who wanted to participate in the project. "They understood how important it was," she said.

Commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority, the photos show athletes from many countries and feature Olympic competitors and non-Olympians alike. Lacombe says she hopes her portraits will inspire other young girls, who might become sports stars one day.

"With the inclusion of the two athletes from Saudi Arabia in London, I think it's about to turn the corner for women too," Lacombe said. "A really important corner."

The exhibition is showing at Sotheby's, London, until August 11.

1. Arab Women in Sport
2. in London.
3. photo exhibition
4. until August 11
5. by the Qatar Museums Authority
6. to inspire other young girls
7. Wojdan Shaherkani will set a new Olympic record
8. she will become the first Saudi woman to take part in any Olympic Games.
9. Qatar and Brunei

Numbered questions:
1. What is the exhibition about?
2. Where is it at?
3. Where in London?
4. How long is it open?
5. Who commissioned it?
6. Why?
7. What happened Friday morning?
8. What will it be?
9. Are there any other?

Q: Kongbai, Guizhou (CNN) -- Savoring a meal of vegetables and rice grown in nearby paddy fields washed down with some home-brewed rice wine served, it's clear Long Taiyang is delighted to be back.

Once one of the 250 million Chinese farmers that left behind their families to forge a living in the coastal factory towns, the 37 year old lives back in his ancestral village of Kongbai, a jumble of 200 timber houses that cling to the side of a valley in southeast Guizhou, one of China's poorest province.

"I don't want to leave anymore," he says, tired of factory work and living in a cramped dormitory after four years spent making leather shoes in Wenzhou in eastern China.

Long is not alone in abandoning what has been described as the one of the greatest human migrations of all time.

While the overall number of migrant workers is still on the rise in China, those seeking work in their home provinces increased at a quicker pace that the number of long-distance workers, according to analysis by The China Labor Bulletin.

Investment in China's inland provinces has meant that many migrant workers can now find decent paying jobs closer to home and many, like Long, have concluded that separation from their families and communities is too great a price to pay.

Grand plans

Not just home to sample his wife's cooking, Long has a plan to give himself and his village a better future.

He hopes to revive the traditional trade of silver and metal working that has all but died out as people left in search of better opportunities.

1. Long Taiyang
2. back in his ancestral village
3. Kongbai
4. no
5. poorest province.
6. China
7. no
8. tired of factory work and living in a cramped dormitory
9. after four years
10. making leather shoes
11. Wenzhou in eastern China.
12. the overall number of migrant workers
13. China
14. according to analysis
15. The China Labor Bulletin.
16. 37
17. Grand plans
18. a better future.
19. the traditional trade
20. of silver and metal working

Numbered questions:
1. who is delighted to be back?
2. where did he return to?
3. what is the name?
4. is it a rich area?
5. what type of socioeconomic area is it?
6. in what country?
7. does he want to stay ?
8. why not?
9. how long did he live in the dormitory?
10. what did he do in the factory?
11. in what place?
12. what is on the rise?
13. where?
14. who stated this?
15. analysis by who?
16. how old is Long?
17. what type of plans does he have?
18. why?
19. what does he want to revive?
20. of what?