Obese women have four times as many unplanned pregnancies as healthy-weight women despite having less sex, and obese men are more likely to have sexual diseases despite fewer partners.
All Chinese nationals stranded in riot-hit Kyrgyzstan have left the Central Asian nation after a ninth chartered plane carrying stranded Chinese nationals departed from the southern region of Osh Wednesday night.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived at Auckland on Thursday morning, starting his official visit to New Zealand.
A crawfish holds on to a miniature soccer ball filled with food in a tank which has been decorated as a football pitch, at the Sea Life Aquarium in Berlin, June 16, 2010.
The property boom in China isn't a bubble because it is supported by "solid" demand for residential housing, according to Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd.
China Minmetals Group, the nation's largest metals trader, is planning more overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in ferrous metals this year to bolster its raw material supplies.
Sport can change lives and help create social change in regions such as the Middle East, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
Southern Ocean sperm whales offset their carbon footprint by defecating, scientists said on Wednesday, releasing tons of iron a year, stimulating the growth of phytoplankton which in turn absorb carbon dioxide.
Russia may add the Australian and Canadian dollars to its international reserves for the first time after fluctuations in the US dollar and euro.
Provincial governments are not transparent when it comes to sharing basic information with the public, according to research released on Tuesday.
Wan Xingming, a farmer in Pengzhou city, Sichuan province, was excited on Wednesday not only because he could feast on his favorite rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival.
The discipline authority in the national capital has launched a website to make it simpler for the public to report corruption in the selection and appointment of Party and government officials.