For the first time in three years, lava from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has crept down miles of mountainside and is dripping into the Pacific Ocean-where it's creating new land and a stunning show for visitors.
With a second Chinese bagging the Hugo prize, expectations from the country's sci-fi writers are rising. Xinhua reports.
Joy Chen, a former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, didn't expect to become a popular author in China. Yet she is now in the country promoting her book Do Not Marry Before Age 30.
For Montreal-based writer Xue Yiwei, the publication of the English version of his collection of short stories in Chinese is a remarkable event.
Between the soaring, lush mountains in Southwest China are the villages of ethnic groups where women pass down exquisite embroidery traditions through generations. Among the many items they produce is the bei shan or baby carrier.
Visitors to Hanoi can now see 12 genres of Vietnamese folk paintings at an exhibition at the Hanoi Museum. More than 200 works from well-known painting genres such as Dong Ho, Hang Trong and Kim Hoang are on show.
Liang Jiahao is still carrying what he labels "new store opening weight" - 10 kilos, two months after My Butchery was opened.
When I heard that Italian food importer Gennaro Miele was marketing a lactose-free mozzarella, I thought he'd gone mad. Sold his soul to the devil. Or maybe been kidnapped by space aliens.
Juan I-jong believes that a century from now, people will still be looking at his pictures.
High-rise buildings that dominate the skylines of major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou include well-designed luxury hotels that passers-by take for granted.
Wang Baoqiang has filed for divorce. And half of China is said to have an opinion on it - and eagerly expressed it.
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