The heavy fog could not obscure the romantic atmosphere in Beijing as thousands of new couples poured into their local marriage registries on Oct 10 hoping to benefit from the lucky "two tens", which, in a Chinese idiom shiquanshimei, meaning everything is perfect.
Rescue teams around the capital had a busy holiday season responding to calls for help.
Foreigners in Beijing now account for around 1 percent of the capital's population.
October is perhaps the most glorious month in Beijing. Beijingers will half-jokingly tell you there are only two season in the capital - the smoggy, sweltering summer and the dry, bitterly cold winter.
Beijing once had thousands of temples, more than any other city in Asia. It was both a political capital and a holy city that attracted thousands of pilgrims each year from all over China.
There might be little luck for most low-income workers chasing cheap flats to rent, but that doesn't put off netizen Susie Gao - in return for a home, she is offering knowledge.
For a quiet and taxing hike through the hills, Laura Morgan got to grips with Fenghuangling
The modern kitchen began to take shape sometime around 1900. It has been a leading indicator of the state of design ever since. It has also been a battlefield of conflicting belief systems. As the use of servants declined, housewives became at once early adopters of new products meant to free them from drudgery and targets of corporate advertising that relentlessly defined them as household fixtures themselves.
It was 1:30 a.m. on a balmy Friday and the jazz musicians were still swinging. An air of sweat and cheap beer pervaded the dank walls of Fat Cat, a basement jazz club-cumpool hall in New York's West Village.
For more than 40 years, Larry Harlow has been affectionately known in the Latin music world as "El Judio Maravilloso" ("the marvelous Jew"), a pianist, songwriter, producer and arranger with an unerring feeling for clave, Latin music's five-stroke beat, and an ear for hits.
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