Whether it's ghosts or goblins or candy and costumes, Americans are ready to spend far more on Halloween this year than last, an estimated $5.8 billion, and they aren't leaving their pets out of the fun.
Full moons are often associated with tides, insanity and creatures like werewolves, but it turns out they're also good for brewing beer.
Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud: the Snowbird has flown.
Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru.
It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in Pidgin.
When I first arrived in Beijing, I saw ordinary people rubbing their money - just like I'd seen gamblers do for good luck at casinos and poker games back home in the United States.
It's that time of year again. A time when freshmen university students all around China engage in what seems to have become a rite of passage - military training.
British children's weekly pocket money has fallen to a seven-year low, in a sign parents are still cutting back on non-essential spending even as the country emerges from recession, a survey showed Monday.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will release an autobiography in January that the publisher promises "pulls no punches" from a man who was one of the most ardent proponents of going to war in Iraq.
The Guggenheim museum has teamed with YouTube in a partnership that reflects the growing influence of new media as an art form.
Imagine if hundreds of people were talking to you simultaneously about dozens of different topics and each was expecting an immediate response.
When Li Chujiong, the general manager of Hainan Carrianna Holdings Limited first came to Hainan and decided to open a restaurant in 1993, most people on the South China island ate at public stalls.
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