Multicolored bear statues spring up in Alaska's largest city

Alaska's largest city is home to more than 300 grizzly and black bears and now more than a dozen multicolored ones.

NY's Met extends hit fashion exhibition

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Thursday that it is extending the hours of the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology exhibition that has drawn near-record visits.

Modern music with ancient roots

With her exceptional voice, well-known for spanning seven octaves and her performance of khoomei (throat-singing), Sainkho Namtchylak, the singer from Tuva, has performed around the world.

Paisley Park, home of Prince, to open for public tours

Paisley Park, the private estate and studio complex of the late rock superstar Prince, will open for daily public tours starting Oct 6, the trust company overseeing his estate announced Wednesday, and the company that runs Elvis Presley's Graceland will manage it.

Wondrous delights in NW Shanxi

North China's Shanxi province has plenty of wonderful sites and sights, but three particularly unusual ancient relics and strange bits of architecture that have been around for hundreds of years are a cliff temple, hanging coffins, and a village built on the face of a cliff in the Luya Mountain Scenic Area of Ningwu county, that can all be visited within a day.

From dry cave to spooky ice cave Ningwu delivers

Shanxi was fairly well known for its cave dwellers in the northern part of the province. No, no, these were not Ice Age Neanderthals or cave men, they were local farmers who made their homes by digging into the hard-packed loess soil for a place that is cool in the blazing summer and not so cold in the winter.

Yellow River and Great Wall shake hands here

There's an old saying in China to describe the Yellow River, its mother river by calling it - jiu qu, shiba wan, or 'nine twists, 18 turns' - because it meanders all over northern China on its lazy 5,464 kilometer run to the East Sea

Sadness in the eyes of those who behold her

Once upon a time the maiden looked at her reflection and said: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"

Pharmaceutical company aims to staunch danger of unused medicine

Expired drugs are becoming a significant threat to the environment because of their chemical ingredients that can change and become hazardous if disposed improperly, especially into water and the earth, and a State-owned pharmaceutical company has called on the public to pay more attention to the issue.

Eye on the teen market

Adolescence can be a difficult time for teenagers and their parents, but major Chinese fashion brand JNBY wants to make it fun on the clothing front.

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Herb master

A prominent Beijing chef completes the first chapter of an encyclopedic labor of love: a professional's guide to the herbs of Yunnan province, Mike Peters and Jiang Wanjuan report.