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China Daily | Updated: 2014-12-04 07:45

Photo: Liu Yiting helps her grandmother gather fallen leaves in Jinan, Shandong province, on Sunday. The 6-year-old Yiting lives with her grandparents and a sister in a sanitation worker's dorm in Jinan. Her parents divorced four years ago.

Bilingual news: It sounds like something from a science fiction film, but a pill to counter the aging process could become a reality. Scientists in Russia are testing a new formula they claim can delay the onset of aging. They hope the tablet, which is being tested on rats, mice, fish and dogs, will allow people to live to at least 120.

Buzzword: "Office dwellers" are people who linger at their workplaces after hours. Most office-dwellers live in the country's first-tier cities. Some lingerers are required to work overtime; some choose to evade traffic congestion during peak hours; and some people, mainly those who live alone, are not eager to leave and prefer to kill time in the office.

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